WE Charity

Thank you so much for visiting my fundraising page for WE Charity! For my Bar Mitzvah, I am requesting donations to WE Charity instead of gifts.

WE Charity is an international development and youth empowerment organization that means a lot to me. In 2014, I had the opportunity to volunteer on a WE Charity trip in Ragasthan, India. The photo on my page is from a classroom that I was able to visit while I was there.  I then attended WE's Take Action Camp in Ontario, Canada for two consecutive summers where I learned to "be the change you wish to see in the world". Both of these opportunities gave me the chance to learn about different cultures and practice how to positively impact other communities through service projects. I also learned more about global struggles relating to food and water scarcity, discrimination and violence, and lack of access to education. I have come to understand just how fortunate I am to be growing up in United States in my community with access to an amazing education.
 
For my mitzvah project, I am partnering with WE Charity to fundraise and help send a boy through the Ngulot Boys High School in Kenya to get a quality education. Any donation you can make would be greatly appreciated and would make a huge difference in a Kenyan student's life.

Thanks,

Zander

For my bat mitzvah, I am requesting donations to WE Charity instead of gifts.

WE Charity, formerly known as Free The Children, is an international development charity and youth empowerment movement founded in 1995. WE Charity has developed programs in nine countries, focusing on education, water, health, food and economic opportunity. My mitzvah project is to help support WE’s project in Ecuador.

Thank you for any contribution to this cause that means so much to me. Any donation will help make an impact.

Hannah


If you'd prefer to send your gift via check, it can be made out to WE Charity and sent to:
 
WE Charity
 
c/o Lauren Fox
 
336 Queen St East
 
Toronto, Ontario
 
M5A 1S8
 
Canada

In June 2018 Brendan Miller, Jenny Santos and Kyle White traveled to Ecuador on a service trip with WE Charity, a non-profit organization empowering communities that have been plagued by systematic inequalities. The organization focuses on five core pillars to drive community-based, sustainable development: Education, Sustainable Agriculture, Clean Water & Sanitation, Health, and Economic Opportunity. In addition, the WE Movement educates and enables young people with tools to create sustainable social change.

While there, we spent a week in the Chimborazo Mountain region of the Andes and a week in the Tena region of the Amazon. The goal of the trip was to help build schools in these communities, meet and learn about the people living there, understand the oppressive forces that produce entrenched poverty and then determine what we can do to create social change. Along the journey, we became most passionate about the notion that a lack of strong education systems produces social stagnation.

 Now, our goal is to raise $5,000 to build a new school building in Shuid, a community in Chimborazo where the population experiences extreme poverty. 100% of this money will go towards the cost of constructing a new school building from start to finish. The average family in Shuid lives on less than $1.00 per day, which is not enough to survive a full life. Every donation directly impacts this community’s fight to lift themselves out of poverty.

We included some pictures below that depict our trip and allow you to see the community this GoFundMe is contributing towards. Also, there are exterior / interior pictures of a school building that WE Charity has recently completed, similar to the one we are fundraising to build.

Brendan, Kyle & Jenny working in Schuid.
WE's most recent school building.
Local kids sharing their exciting experience with their new school in the Chimborazo region.
Jenny working with women in a community “Minga” in Shuid. As part of the “Minga” tradition, a long-held social contract, each family sends out one family member during the day to help build the school. However, during the week, most of the men in the community are sent off to the coast to work, which means that the older women are ultimately responsible for helping build the school.
Kyle & Brendan working on a school site near Tena.