ALL ABOUT RUHIJA COMMUNITY ORPHANS & NEEDY CHILDREN’S NURSERY AND PRIMARY SCHOOL Our school started in 2012 with 47 pupils. It started with a nursery section (baby class, middle class and top class). Pupils used to learn under trees. From there school administrators began to construct grass thatched houses for pupils to study from. Currently, […]
Students at Murushasha Community Primary and Nursery School in Uganda are celebrating their new source of water and were thrilled to have received pen pal letters from students at The Joseph Sears School in IL. Thanks to The Joseph Sears School Student Advisory Board for supporting this project!
“Going to the bathroom was uncomfortable because we were afraid with the structure it was going to break and fall over on us,” remembers 12-year-old Luis Daniel Jirón Abarca, student in the Santa Rita School in Quizaltepe, San Lorenzo. “We used the old latrines, or sometimes we went to our homes or the neighbor’s house […]
Today, we were all looking forward to our visit to Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO), an organization founded by a friend of founder Patty Hall, Kennedy Odede. Kennedy grew up in the Kibera Slums and has made it his life’s mission to bring about change for Kibera. Kennedy and his wife, Jessica Posner, have written […]
The Young Women’s Group at Fridley High School in MN raised over $300 this past weekend bagging groceries at Cub Foods. The group is raising money for water filters in Puerto Rico as part of the hurricane relief efforts. Way to go YWG!!