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Muwanguzi Herbert
$0 of $360 donated
Kampala, Uganda
I came to Peace School one year ago when my mother died. My father is related to the cook at Peace School and she suggested that I come here to complete my primary education. It has been difficult because the classes here are taught in English. The old school I attended uses our native language Luganda. But I am learning English very fast. I live in the Boy’s Dormitory with 14 other boys. Ali is my best friend. We study together and play together. I like to study, and English has become my favorite subject. During the holiday I travel back to my village to see my father and family. It is a long journey. When I grow up I would like to be an airplane pilot. I would love to look down at the earth from the sky. I would like to visit other countries, especially America. I hope you can help me achieve my dreams by helping me obtain an education. Note: Peace Nursery and Primary School is a private school serving orphans and other children unable to afford the costs of attendi...
Solo Village School Repair
$500 of $500 donated
Bougouni, Mali
Originally constructed ten years ago, the school in the rural village of Solo in Mali, West Africa has severely deteriorated due to lack of quality structural supplies and the abuse of harsh weather conditions. The building was built with mud bricks covered by a thin layer of cement. The cement on the floors and ceilings is beginning to crack and break, and in one classroom the broken concrete has left a large hole in the floor, leaving the classroom unusable if the ground is wet from rain. Another classroom has a make-shift roof of poor-quality tin that leaks during the rainy season. The tin roof needs to be replaced by a durable cement roof and the floors are in need of durable cement to prevent cracking and flooding.
Underfunded Public Schools in Afghanistan
$250 of $250 donated
Kabul, Afghanistan
Approximately 90% of women and 85% of men as well as 45% of school age children in Afghanistan are illiterate. Most do not have access to learning centers and materials. The existing schools are so sparse and the demands for them so high that each school operates three daily shifts to accommodate the demand: Elementary students attend from 7 am to 10 am, middle school students from 10:30 to 1:30 pm, and high schoolers from 2 pm to 5 pm. But there are not enough textbooks for students to study, or trained teachers to lead classes. In many high school classes there are perhaps two textbooks for a class of thirty students. Teaching material such as charts, laboratories, and libraries are virtually nonexistent. Only schools located in the richest and most influential parts of a district receive attention from the government; others only as time, resources and inclinations permit. It is not unusual to find schools without buildings – with rooms consisting of large metal shipping contai...
Mao Chun (Mao Chun)
$250 of $250 donated
Si Chuan, China
May 1, 1992 was the day I was born into my impoverished family. As an older person now, I look back to the memories of our five-person family unit surviving in brutal poverty. My home did not have much grain or rice, while others had a plentiful supply. We sometimes borrowed from other families to feed ourselves and return the amount back to them the next year. If we were lucky to have a good crop season, you can see the smiles on my family’s faces, and vice a versa. During Chinese New Year, others would kill their pigs to feast on, while we would never be able to. Without anything to eat, we would just hide at home, fearing that others would talk about our lack of festivities. But our family would never step foot inside another’s roof just to eat pork. During the course of my studies, my dad would cross many roads in the wind to get to my relatives’ houses to borrow my tuition. Here a little, and there a little, we would gather enough to send me to school
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