By Merritt Frey, Executive Director
A few weeks back, we launched our Back-to-School Safe Campaign for our kids in Mali. With your help, we will raise $3,000 to provide the tools and training our kids and teachers need to stay safe in Mali, where online learning just is not an option.
We are 20% of the way to our goal but there’s still a long way to go! We are grateful to everyone who has donated so far, and hope more of you will be able to get involved. We know times are tough for many of us, but for those who can give you can really make a difference for some great kids with as little as $25.
Your donation will help us:
Deliver 12 additional hand-washing stations to schools in need of these critical tools.
Teach six teachers to provide regular hand-washing trainings to 100+ students at their schools.
Provide COVID-19 prevention lesson plans to teachers at all 24 of our schools, along with daily morning announcements teachers can use to keep safety foremost in students’ minds.
Help our school Health Clubs promote COVID-19 prevention through a competitive video contest.
And more….
Note: This is a pre-COVID handwashing training — hence the lack of social distancing and masks!
As an example of just how far your donation can go in Mali, your $25 donation could train one teacher to give hand-washing instruction to hundreds of kids for months to come. If you are able to donate $50 you could purchase a whole hand-washing station. If you have $100 to give, you can sponsor one school’s Health Club educational video contest. And $250 could underwrite the entire creation of our health lesson plan package for our 24 schools.
Thanks so much for thinking of Mali’s kids in the midst of all that is going on. We appreciate the hearts of those who can stay open to everyone even when times are tough!
