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Good morning to everybody. So as promised, a little update on some of the work we have been trying to do with the money that was raised. Talking with the NGO Hug it Forward, we have decided to focus on some aspects that have been overlooked in the relief efforts.
Often times, people donate to attend to immediate needs, in our case - bags of food, repairing roofs, and water. This is great and extremely necessary but unfortunately the help ends there. There is no long-term investment in projects for the community. This is one of the reasons that we decided to wait. See where more of the needs are. The roofs were repaired by the government and the food crisis by the Ministry of Agriculture. We have decided to focus on 3 aspects that are very important:
- Education
- Health
- Environment
This will consist mainly of building clean-burning wood stoves and doing projects with the kids in the schools. The first thing that we did with our donations was provide school materials (workbooks, crayons, pencils, glue, erasers, scissors) to kids in one of the village's schools. All of their teaching/learning materials were destroyed when their roof's caved in.The next post will talk about our project with the clean wood-burning stoves which is great for the environment and of course brings incredible health benefits. Enjoy the photos.
Dividing the materials up by classroom
Teachers delivering the materials to the kids
Arts and Crafts Project
These kids were very appreciative!! Including the girl on the far right haha
That's all, next post will be on Stoves. Enjoy your hot showers.
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