Donated to:
Jianping He (何建平)
$280 of $280 donated
Sichuan, China
Like many in my village, I did not own my first set of clothing until I was five years old. My family had been too poor to buy cloth. My family rents fields from others, and my father works a second job as a manual laborer downtown. My family must pay tuition for my brother and me – I am in middle school and my brother is in elementary school. During one tough time, I dropped out of class for a semester because my family couldn’t afford my tuition fee. Originally, I lived in a remote rural area, from where children would walk five hours to get to school since public transportation was not available. My old home was about 5 miles away from my current school. Everyday, I had to walk for an hour and a half to get to school. Because my parents wanted my brother and me to be closer to school, we decided to move, and found a nice neighbor willing to rent some farmland out. Unfortunately, the weather was very bad. When there was a storm, my family would have nothing to eat for several ...
Long Term School Fund for Amarseva
$1000 of $1000 donated
Rajesthan, India
The named scholarship initiative is a chance for families to donate two hundred dollars or more and create a fund in their family name or in the name of a loved one that will help children not only today, but tomorrow. It is at the cutting edge of a new field – sustainable charity. The donated money will be placed into a term deposit (CD) that will run for five years. Each year, the interest earned will help pay for the expenses to run the school. The current project is to fund night classes for teenage boys and girls so they can prepare for some of India’s competitive college entrance exams and hopefully study at a college. The school is currently several mud and brick open aired shacks. The students sit on the floor and there is only one blackboard for 20 or more students. Yet, the students come every day, and the teachers have an almost perfect attendance record. The fact is the students and teachers have the passion, the school just needs financial help to get to the next le...
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