By Merritt Frey, Executive Director

You may not be that into all the hearts and flowers this month, but there’s a better way to show your love — through volunteering! This month, Mali Rising is offering two options to help spread the love through our volunteer project and we hope you’ll join in the fun.

Each short online event — we call these Volunteer Evenings — will focus on one, specific volunteer opportunity. We will provide all the information you need to get started and answer any questions you may have.

The first of our two February Volunteer Evenings are coming up tomorrow — so don’t delay signing up! On Thursday, February 11th, we’ll discuss the details of how to volunteer for the Menstrual Kit Campaign. The Menstrual Kit campaign volunteers help us produce kits that help our female students get to school during their period. Each kit can give a girl back a week of school each month! This campaign is great for groups or individuals. Many of the roles do require sewing skills, so if you know how to sew or are willing to learn we could really use your help! Our goal is to create 200 new kits in the next few months, so please RSVP today to learn how to volunteer for the Menstrual Kit Campaign.

On February 18th, we’ll dive in on the details of participating in the Read to Mali Campaign. Read to Mali is a new volunteer effort at Mali Rising. The campaign will officially launch the third week of February. The basic idea is to have volunteers read short children’s books or poems aloud, and record themselves on video doing so. Our English teachers will uses these videos in their teaching curriculum! This is a great volunteer option for individuals or families. Our goal is to record at least 50 stories in the next few months. Sign up to learn about the details of participating in the Read to Mali Campaign.

Thanks in advance for being willing to step up and spread the love!