Our partner organization, The Mpambara-Cox Foundation sent us a photograph from the Kasinde Primary School in Uganda where one of the water tanks will be installed.  Shown in the photo above are some of the children who will benefit from having the water tanks installed to be used for their daily food program.  The children are standing on the approximate spot of their future water tank.

Our sixth project is underway!  Partnering with the Mpambara Cox Foundation, we will be funding the purchase and installation of a rainwater catchment and purification system at the Kasinde and Nyamiyaga Schools in Uganda.  The primary purpose of the water will be for use in their 10:30 Porridge Program.  This is a school feeding program that provides a daily meal to children served at 10:30am, Monday through Friday. The focus is on providing nutrition and giving the children an incentive to come to school and to maintain regular attendance. The porridge is prepared and served at government aided schools located in rural locations where most families live on less than $1 a day.

A Collaboration with the Community
Providing clean drinking water and a meal every school day, has several major impacts on the students and community.  At a basic level, we all understand the value of having education available to children.  Ensuring that students go to school often and stick with their eduction is essential to the long term impact it can have on a community.  Having a food program such as this, helps ensure that the students will attend school regularly.  In addition, Mpambara Cox Foundation has built ties with several local communities and their leaders to expand the program into more and more schools.  They also have a “Link Coordinator” for each school who manages the operation by creating a local committee of parents.  As of July 2011, the program has been feeding 1300 school children in 4 different schools, employing 9 cooking staff.  The porridge is also made from locally grown maize.

Check back for continued updates as the team in Uganda get work started.

In 2011, the students at St. Hope Leadership Academy collected change, ran a bake sale and one student even donated his penny jar from home to help the students in El Salvador!

This completed project will serve over 250 people in the rural community of Bachevra and make a significant impact on their daily lives.

Many thanks go out to the donation team who fully funded the construction of this project!

We received a wonderful letter of thanks from the students and staff at El Colegio Luterano in El Salvador for the money raised by St. Hope Leadership Academy in New York.  The money that the students collected was used to help purchase school supplies for the students in El Salvador.

Students at I.S.218 in New York is teaming up with The 10-Cent Project Solution program to once again help their partner school, The Njinikejem Government School in Cameroon.  Last year, the 8th graders raised funds to build benches and chalkboards for the school.  This year they are expanding the program to include ALL the students from 6th-8th grade.  Joe met with nearly 400 students to introduce the program and will be going back to talk with student government representatives from each grade to help decide on what project they would like to help with this year.

They are expecting that the completion is staying on schedule and will update us with the final images when done.

As part of the funds provided by Eighth Grade students at I.S.218 in New York, new chalkboards we made for the classroom at a local school in Cameroon.  As we all know, having chalkboards is a vital tool in a classroom for educating students.   Many thanks to all the students who helped fund this project.

Tara speaks to the crowd

October 6th, 2011 was our Third Annual Community Event held in New York City.  We had a great turn out of folks who came to celebrate the work we’ve been doing around the world.  The attendees included some of our current donors and a group of new people who were excited to learn about our organization and sign up to help make a real difference in the lives of others.

Advisory Board Member Carrie Preston

A special thank you to our volunteers who helped make the evening possible: Scot, Shannon & Sumi.

Our event sponsors for this year were:

Studio 225

Big City Graphx

The Vine Collective

The Renaissance

Check out what they have to say about us by clicking the image to the left, and browse around their site to read some great interviews with amazing folks.