A huge thank-you to all staff and students who participated in our Schools 4 Schools program during 2010-2011. Your hard work and dedication is very much appreciated. Look at what you have accomplished.
Elephant Thoughts and Fabretto Children’s Foundation
Nicaragua
Elephant Thoughts has partnered with Fabretto Children’s Foundation, whose mission is to enable impoverished Nicaraguan children and their families in under-served communities to break the cycle of poverty and reach their full potential with programs that promote nutrition, health, education, community and character development.
El Pegador School
This is a small school that serves 51 students from pre-school to grade six. After school tutoring and mentor programs are run with great success, but resources are scarce.
The Schools 4 Schools program helped provide:
Arts and Crafts at El Pegador
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sports equipment
- school and medical supplies
- arts and crafts supplies
- funds for field trips
- traditional dance uniforms
Elephant Thoughts and Soft Power Education
Uganda
Elephant Thoughts has partnered with Soft Power Education, an organization that uses “soft power”—factors such as knowledge, information, culture, ideas and systems to achieve its goals and empower the people of Uganda.
Soft Power Education has set up a Special Education Needs unit for 36 children, aged 6-15, with physical, intellectual and hearing impairments. The facility includes boys and girls dormitories, 2 classrooms, and physiotherapy and play rooms.
Students skipping with their new rope
- classroom resources
- sports equipment
Elephant Thoughts and CPAR
Tanzania
Elephant Thoughts has partnered with Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief (CPAR), an organization working in partnership with vulnerable communities and diverse organizations to overcome poverty and build healthy communities in Africa. Health is created and sustained by the environmental, physical and social conditions affecting people and goes far beyond medical facilities.
CPAR works with community-based childcare centres, supporting hundreds of children, many of whom are orphans, having lost parents to HIV and AIDS. The communities rally around the centres through gardening projects that produce maize, vegetables, and other crops to feed the children.
Drip Irrigation at Work
The Schools 4 Schools Program has provided:
- drip irrigation
Elephant Thoughts in Inida
Elephant Thoughts has been working in Mirik, India since 2002. Mirik is located on the Eastern edge of the Himalayas in the State of West Bengal.Life in Mirik is hard. Many families are impoverished, surviving on subsistence farming. Tea picking is the main industry in the area and reliable employment is a challenge. Many families live in undesirable housing conditions, with no running water or electricity.
The Schools 4 Schools Program has provided:
Students, in new uniforms, have a snack break
- salaries for two teachers
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a salary for an education assist
- school uniforms
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kindergarten schools supplies
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funding for a lunch program
Elephant Thoughts in Tanzania
Elephant Thoughts has been working in Tanzania since 2007. Tanzania has a very large population with huge challenges to the education system. Classrooms are overcrowded, and lack the basic needs of textbooks, desks and chairs, and other supplies.
Our sustainable school program, running in 4 schools, is bringing the community together to help meet needs. Visit Sustainable Schools for more information.
Shamaliwa Student
The Schools 4 Schools Program provided:
- textbooks for all four schools
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desks and chairs for Shamaliwa, Igoma, Nyerere
- funding for the girls club
- sports equipment for Igoma
If you have any questions about our Schools 4 Schools program, please contact Tara Bailey, at tara [Email address: tara #AT# elephantthoughts.com - replace #AT# with @ ].
