Community Partnership Feature: Student Sponsorship Drive
Featured each month is a different non-profit participating in our Community Partnership Program.
When we represent a Seller or Buyer, 10% of our commission is donated to a non-profit of their choice. Strong relationships have been established with a variety of non-profits as we diligently promote this opportunity. Featured non-profit: East African Center
Help One Child Attend School ~ 2008 Student Sponsorship Drive
My friend Suzanne Jeneby founded the East African Center which has been a featured Community Partnership in past issues. One of the important arms of EAC’s work is to provide education and nutrition to children in the village of Vutakaka. The current economic and political strife in Africa directly affects the EAC and the hundreds of people they serve. The EAC seriously needs financial help to continue their many valuable programs. A little goes a long way in Africa. You can send a child to school for one entire year for just .48 cents a day.
Sponsorship provides to a child for one school year: school fees, text books, school lunch, uniform, paper, pencils, crayons, shoes, a lantern, and even basic medical care.
Here is a special opportunity to make a real difference in a child’s life. In Africa, one in three children does not go to school and two thirds of the 40 million non-attenders are girls. Yet, when children, especially girls, are educated they tend to marry later, have fewer children, are more likely to stay HIV free, and their incomes rise. Please help a little boy or girl get a quality education. Together we can prepare these children for a bright future. We need your help to give them a chance.
Sponsor a child to attend Vutakaka Junior School!
The new school year just began on January 7, 2008.
To sponsor a child please send $175 to:
East African Center
6040 Hardwick Place
Falls Church, VA 22041
You will be sent a picture and description of the child, and you will receive communications from that child throughout the year.
Sponsorship also makes a great gift! ‘We will send a gift certificate indicating your generous gift to the person of your choice.
Suzanne Jeneby, Executive Director sjeneby@eastafricancenter.org
Website http://www.eastafricancenter.org/
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