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We have also received donations from hundreds of individual
contributors. To protect their identities we cannot list them here, but
they are always in our hearts.
Other friends of Creating Hope International and the Afghan Institute of Learning include:
National Endowment for Democracy
Peace Education Center, Teachers College, Columbia University
The Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding
The Bon Foundation
CHI and AIL are grateful for the countless volunteers and donors without whom our vision could not be a reality.
Featured Donors
Millsaps College, Jackson , Mississippi - Catapult team
This enterprising group of activists have a motto "Across the street and around the globe!" and students at Millsaps College are taking this message and putting it into action uniting to raise money for girls education worldwide! They formed a team under the Catapult website which focuses fundraising efforts for girls education and kicked off their efforts with a showing of the Half the Sky film which recently aired on PBS following this various organizations were chosen and a vote taken as to which one to support - AIL won the vote.
Their student manager told us of their various efforts, "We held an awareness day to expose some of the oppression that women and girls face around the world on October 11, the International Day of the Girl, and began selling handmade t-shirts to the growing number of activists on our campus. We worked hard to raise awareness on campus and involved many organizations like Amnesty International in this process. By selling t-shirts and collecting donations outside our cafeteria, we have raised over $1000 dollars in just under two months. We make all our fundraisers fun with music and free candy, which really draws people in. Our latest fundraising adventure has been "Cups for Change," where 20 committed activists, inspired by the work of AIL and the message of Half the Sky, carried around cups all week asking for loose change. I am still collecting cups from students, but it looks like that fundraiser collected about $100! I think we have been successful because of our ongoing effort to actively engage the student body in awareness building, then empowering students who become passionate about the project to fundraising independently, with Catapult as our fundraising "headquarters.We will keep going with this project because we believe in its message: that all girls deserve to have the opportunity to go to school."
The Millsaps team were able to raise over $1000 which they kindly donated to one of AIL's projects Scholarships for Afghan girls. This generous donation means we are now one third of the way to fully funding this project under Catapult. Thank you Millsaps! We are delighted by the success of your efforts and also that you have engaged young people in the cause and want to continue to support girls education.
Helping Hands Club - Alcott Elementary School , Chicago IL
In September CHI for AIL received a donation from a unique source: a group of elementary school students (mainly kindergarten and 1st grade) from the Helping Hands Club of Alcott Elementary School in Chicago.
These students are part of an after school group that meets and are engaged in a global outreach project to learn about different countries through activities including playing games from the countries. The students chose a cause and raise money for it. In March and April they studied Afghanistan and chose AIL as their cause.
With the help of their leader, parents and teachers the children gathered used books and held a book sale after school for several hours each week. The leader and students set up their table in the hall and talked with parents about AIL as they arrived to collect their children. In the words of the leader, "It was really great to see the students in the club give up so much of their play time and become so passionate about this cause."
Through their concern for others, creative thinking and hard work these young students were able to raise over $300 for AIL programs. We are grateful for their work and donation. Thank you Alcott Elementary School Helping Hands Club members!!
Other friends of Creating Hope International and the Afghan Institute of Learning include:
National Endowment for Democracy
Peace Education Center, Teachers College, Columbia University
The Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding
The Bon Foundation
CHI and AIL are grateful for the countless volunteers and donors without whom our vision could not be a reality.
Featured Donors
Millsaps College, Jackson , Mississippi - Catapult team
This enterprising group of activists have a motto "Across the street and around the globe!" and students at Millsaps College are taking this message and putting it into action uniting to raise money for girls education worldwide! They formed a team under the Catapult website which focuses fundraising efforts for girls education and kicked off their efforts with a showing of the Half the Sky film which recently aired on PBS following this various organizations were chosen and a vote taken as to which one to support - AIL won the vote.
Their student manager told us of their various efforts, "We held an awareness day to expose some of the oppression that women and girls face around the world on October 11, the International Day of the Girl, and began selling handmade t-shirts to the growing number of activists on our campus. We worked hard to raise awareness on campus and involved many organizations like Amnesty International in this process. By selling t-shirts and collecting donations outside our cafeteria, we have raised over $1000 dollars in just under two months. We make all our fundraisers fun with music and free candy, which really draws people in. Our latest fundraising adventure has been "Cups for Change," where 20 committed activists, inspired by the work of AIL and the message of Half the Sky, carried around cups all week asking for loose change. I am still collecting cups from students, but it looks like that fundraiser collected about $100! I think we have been successful because of our ongoing effort to actively engage the student body in awareness building, then empowering students who become passionate about the project to fundraising independently, with Catapult as our fundraising "headquarters.We will keep going with this project because we believe in its message: that all girls deserve to have the opportunity to go to school."
The Millsaps team were able to raise over $1000 which they kindly donated to one of AIL's projects Scholarships for Afghan girls. This generous donation means we are now one third of the way to fully funding this project under Catapult. Thank you Millsaps! We are delighted by the success of your efforts and also that you have engaged young people in the cause and want to continue to support girls education.
Helping Hands Club - Alcott Elementary School , Chicago IL
In September CHI for AIL received a donation from a unique source: a group of elementary school students (mainly kindergarten and 1st grade) from the Helping Hands Club of Alcott Elementary School in Chicago.
These students are part of an after school group that meets and are engaged in a global outreach project to learn about different countries through activities including playing games from the countries. The students chose a cause and raise money for it. In March and April they studied Afghanistan and chose AIL as their cause.
With the help of their leader, parents and teachers the children gathered used books and held a book sale after school for several hours each week. The leader and students set up their table in the hall and talked with parents about AIL as they arrived to collect their children. In the words of the leader, "It was really great to see the students in the club give up so much of their play time and become so passionate about this cause."
Through their concern for others, creative thinking and hard work these young students were able to raise over $300 for AIL programs. We are grateful for their work and donation. Thank you Alcott Elementary School Helping Hands Club members!!
