Schools 4 Schools Success Stories

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

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

  • 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

 

The Schools 4 Schools Program helped provide:
  • 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

Mirik, India

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
  • a salary for an education assist
  • school uniforms
  • kindergarten schools supplies
  • 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
  • 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 @ ].

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