Hope For Haiti's Children

Bonjour! My name is Ashton. I am a member of the McKinney High School French Club and we are doing a project in order to raise money that will be given in donation to help build a school in Haiti. So please donate what you can. It's worth it. After all, if that was you, wouldn't you want someone to help you? more

Hope for Haiti’s Children

McKinney High School French Club in McKinney, Texas is working with Random Kid in order to raise funds to help build the Jacmel Children's Center in Haiti. Currently, a local Haitian woman named Bonite Affriany feeds 275 children one square meal per day, as well as educating them and providing them love; however, at the end of each day, she must send them back to their tents or to the streets because she has no place for them to stay. Bonite owns a large piece of property near where she cares for the children. She would like to build a community center on that land. more

Hope- Bosnia

I want to restore hope the people in Bosnia- most importantly to the young people with dreams and potential but without opportunity. I want to bridge that gap and create a network between Bosnian and American Schools. more

Nsumensa Project

We are seeking to support the Nsumensa project through the sale of environmentally friendly water bottles. We are also hoping to raise awareness in this project that was started by one young woman who studied abroad in Ghana in college and fell in love with the people. As she seeks to continue to make a difference we are looking to do our little part in supporting her efforts to provide education, clean water, and sustainable agriculture. more

Podcasting Biliteracy

4th graders and college spanish students will work together through reading/listening biliteracy podcasts. Both groups are second language learners. Students will read and report about the bilingual books read. The groups will also have the opportunity to get together to share experiences. The college Spanish learners will read and record the bilingual books for the 4th graders. more

Project:127

In James 1:27, we are called to "look after orphans and widows in their distress". This project is doing exactly that. We feel we are compelled to leave a legacy in a world that seems to only care about oneself . We emphasis that in 20 years, no one will remember the shirt you wore, or that pimple you had right smack-down in the center of your nose. What they will remember however, is the words that you said, and the way that you loved others. Project:127 is challenging you to be apart of something bigger then yourself. We ask you join hands with us as we save lives by providing education for those less-fortunate. more

reading is light

My name is Nigel Sumbuk. I am from PNG (Papua New Guinea). My country has a population of about 7million people. Most people in PNG live in villages. I would say about 80%. In this 80% about 80% cannot or do not have access to schools. This means they cannot read properly or do not read at all. My mum and sister are helping me with this project. We would like you to donate funds, which we think is the easiest. This will assist us to buy books and pay for the transport cost here in PNG for designated schools. We will also assist The Voice Inc www.thevoicepng.org on one of their book drive activity. I am sure it would be fun for me but I would also like to assist children like me who have limited access to books Please donate NIGEL SUMBUK more

Rehabilitating Street Children back to Class

Recently, efforts have been made in Kenya to promote education as the key to helping children overcome poverty, improve their lives and change their communities. This however has proved difficult to have as many children in schools as majority because of poverty stays out of school. The problem of rapid urbanization in Kenya has had profound negative effects, especially with regard to its effects on children and families. People have been struggling disproportionately with the ill effects of growing urbanization, economic instability, pandemic outbreaks of disease, and dire poverty. This project intends to provide access to reading materials to children from poor families in the slums who because of lack of text book perform poorly in their national examinations and thus make them to drop out of school. The project entail putting up library facilities in public and community schools to allow access to as many children to access reading materials and reading space. more

School Teaching Garden - We Need Votes

Our school, Alamo Elementary in California, is nominated for a $50,000 Grant through Clorox Power a Bright Future to create our dream teaching garden. This contest awards the grand prize to the school with the most votes. We want to build a teaching garden at our school to provide experiential lessons in nature, science, and environment. If we win, our school PTA will transfer the money allocated to the garden, to our sister school in an underprivileged community to purchase basic educational and home care needs. We wish we could share more with them but the contest rules require all prize money be spent on the project nominated. Please help us reach #1 - all it takes is your vote. Plus, spread the news to all your friends. Let's show how schools can support other schools. It's Simple. Text code 2653pbf to 95248 or/and go online to register at www.powerabrightfuture.com and make your vote for Alamo Elementary School. more

Success is Contagious (SIC)

What have we done so far? Our first program began in the December 2009 at Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics High School. In the past year and a half, Mohammed and Syed have actively worked with a group of sophomore students. This group was to be our experimental group for the program, in order to record results and flaws in the model of the program. The experimental group consisted of 25 students, of which 5 decided to drop out of the program. The 20 students who decided to remain have not only improved academically, with each student increasing by an average of 15 points on their GPAs, but also socially. The students are now active participants in clubs and organizations in and around the school. Furthermore, many of our students hold leadership positions in their respective clubs and organization. (Data will be presented should you be interested in our program). How do we do it? Our program is very simple to run. All we ask for from our sponsor school is a room afterschool and permission to borrow textbooks for the hours we are in session. We work closely with the guidance department to find a group of students who are failing classes and are in need of help. We then speak to each student and find out their weak points and what they need to improve on. An entrance application must be submitted for this program. Once we find our students, we begin our sessions. Our model is two-pronged. We use one day of the week to focus on academics and tutoring. The second day is used for skills and habits workshops (leadership training). We find the tutors and we deal with the compensation, therefore we take another burden off the school. What we are now working on is finding space on Saturdays and running daylong workshops and classes for our students. By doing so, we expect our data and statistics to improve even more than they already have. Who do we work with? Some of the many organizations we work closely with are: Children’s Aid Society (Our umbrella within schools), RandomKid (our 501c3 umbrella; the grantor under which we operate), Youth Venture (our seed grant sponsors), Do Something (consultation), Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (consultation/brother organization), iCivics, National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, Core Multimedia Group, and Start Some Good. UPDATE: The organization we work with, Children's Aid Society, will be leaving the school beginning Fall 2011 and therefore, Scholars for Success is interviewing for a full-time organization position within Manhattan Center High School. Wish us luck and show the support guys! more