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Elementary School Uniforms
$115 of $540 donated
Guanajuato, Mexico
The girls at Buen Pastor go to a public school here in Guanajuato, in which a uniform is required. When they are wearing a uniform, they look like all the other kids. In a uniform no one can tell if your parents cannot afford to buy new clothing. They don’t know that you spend the rest of the day in ill-fitting hand-me-downs. However, at $26 per uniform, many parents cannot afford the uniforms, placing the burden of buying them on Buen Pastor. This project will provide each girl with a skirt, a blouse, a sweater, a polo shirt and a pair of shorts.
Emotional Health Project and Support Group
$280 of $1750 donated
Central Province, Sri Lanka
In January 2011 two of our students were attacked with a knife by their drunken uncle and hospitalized. Recovered and back at school we need to start a project to help them and many others like them whose lives are terrorized by the double-edged sword of alcoholism and violence. “The words which you gave me, to my feet they’re like a bright light.” Bhagya (2010) Tea estate communities surrounding Maskeliya have an alcoholism rate of 80 – 85% among the male populations. This then feeds into a multitude of social problems created by the slum conditions of the estate housing and the cultural subjugation of young women. The result is that 83% of tea estate women suffer violence against them of which 20% is sexual violence. Young men are also affected by the lack of hope and role models around them growing up and the immense pressure to drink and abuse. In tea estate communities there is a high level of deliberate self-harm as well as attempted and actual suicide as a result of t...
Le Thi Mery
$50 of $300 donated
Quang Tri, Vietnam
Mery’s parents passed away, leaving her and two older brothers. This year, Mery is fourteen years old and entering 8th grade. Despite her disability, Mery is a diligent student in school, excellent in English and music, has a bright smile and positive outlook. She has participated in music competitions and won a number of awards. Mery wishes to go to college and continue studying English.
Tran Thi Kim Chuan
$50 of $300 donated
Quang Tri, Vietnam
Despite struggling with epilepsy, Chuan, 25 years old, is determined to continue her education and is now in 11th grade. She inspires other disabled students at school and in the country with her beautiful voice. Chuan's traditional music performances have touched numerous listeners and have earned her many awards in National Music Competitions for the Disabled.
Kibera School for Girls Arts Education Program
$50 of $3500 donated
Kibera, Kenya
At The Kibera School for Girls (KSG), we believe in hands-on interactive learning, utilizing the imagination and creativity that every child possesses. While the KSG teachers take an interactive, creative approach to lessons, there is currently no teacher on staff with expertise in the arts. This project would bring in a resident of Kenya with experience in arts education to periodically teach the girls, with the goal of eventually hiring a full time arts teacher. The arts teacher would conduct separate lessons to each class on different rotating topics, including drama and theater, movement and dance, music, and visual arts. Other types of art could also be included, like photography, sculpture, or performance poetry. Students would also take cultural field trips in Nairobi to museums, galleries, theaters, native dance companies, and more. This program would help KSG gain access to beneficial resources for arts education. At the school, the floors are often too dirty (from mud trac...
Community Education Project
$405 of $4490 donated
Central Province, Sri Lanka
Over 80% of the children on this programme live on US$1 a day or less, the UN indicator of extreme poverty. The children are surrounded by a culture of alcoholism and violence against women, leading to high levels of deliberate self-harm and the fourth highest suicide rate in the world. The way out of this poverty is to gain jobs outside the tea plantations, but to have any chance of overcoming the ethnic bias against Indian Tamils, a good level of education, particularly English, is crucial. This education, however, is deliberately denied them by influential companies and government who wish to maintain the dependent workforce. This project will bring crucial education to remote tea-picking communities, deprived of equality and falling behind the rest of the country on every poverty indicator and seen as 3rd class citiziens. With government schools in the tea estate communities having the poorest facilities and the least qualified teachers, children are destined to leave school wit...
Let's Go for Geometry
$25 of $450 donated
Bududa and Manafwa Districts, Uganda
Schools in Uganda face many challenges to providing quality education, such as large student populations, inadequate school facilities, and limited teaching supplies. Uganda classrooms have an average of over 100 students. Due to large numbers of students and a limited government budget for education, schools function without necessary tools and materials for teaching their students. The lack of funding and infrastructure has produced dismaying educational results. In Uganda, all students are required to pass the Primary Leaving Exam, a national exam taken at the end of primary school, in order to proceed on to secondary school. Unfortunately, our district consistently brings one of the lowest passing rates in the country; 25% of primary students in our district fail this exam outright and another 46% while passing are in the lower divisions with only 2% achieving division 1 status. In addition, the mathematics portion of the exam often proves to be the most challenging subject for ...
Amway Academy and Orphanage Solar Project
$10 of $475 donated
Volta, Ghana
We will install solar panels on the Amway School. This school educated 150 students from the Agotime Kpetoe community. By adding solar power, we can increase capacity and improve the educational facilities.
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