This post is specially written to raise awareness for a campaign that my dear friend, Ja and her team consisting of international volunteers are championing - to raise $12,000 for a group of school children in Nairobi, Kenya so that they can go to school.
This campaign is raising funds on behalf of Frank Educational Centre, a community school located in the Ngando slum, Nairobi, Kenya. The aim of this fundraising is to secure a new plot of land for the school, which is currently facing eviction from its current premises, and to rebuild it, as well as to take steps towards ensuring the future sustainability of the school and give the children a secure place to reach for their dreams.
I count myself a very blessed child. I am born and raised in Malaysia, a country that lacks nothing beautiful. My parents put high emphasis on education, being educators themselves and I have never lack anything as it is always provided.
Being a volunteer tutor myself in a children's home, I've come to understand that there are many underprivileged children whose parents might not put education as their child's first priority. Some are required to work in the field after school, some might even skip school because their parents went away to earn a living and they are left at home to care for their younger siblings.
Naturally, as education has never been a priority to these children, they are unable to break away from the poverty cycle. This is what we are championing for, a fair chance for the children who want to be more and who believe they can be more than what they are now. We want to give them an opportunity to study, not to deprive them from their rights to education.
Sometimes we have to admit that we are too busy looking at our own problems to realise the needs of others. And even more often we take our comfortable situation for granted, never really appreciating what we have, always coveting what others have.
For those school children, even though they lack, the smile on their faces still encourages people. So all you who are blessed, if everyone would just spend one day not to eat out, not to go watch one of our favourite movie, we could probably save $10 to be donated to this cause. And if 12,000 people would do this, their project would have received the full amount of funding necessary.
This is the link to this project:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/save-frank#home
What $10 could do for us means so much more to them. We are changing lives with our giving. Support the cause, Support education for children!
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