Donate to Help Build a School in a Poor Village
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Hello there! I am raising funds for a school that has become very close to my heart: "Jardin de Amor" (English: "Garden of Love"), a small school that is in the very poor Santa Maria village in Guatemala.
Teen pregnancy, illiteracy, and poverty have become a vicious cycle. The school is a ray of hope for many such people. Many of these children would not have been able to attend school (and could have undergone child labor), but Jardin de Amor helps them achieve a better life through education and nutrition and break through the vicious cycle of poverty. The school is run on donations.
Proper English books can help these students learn English systematically and earn 2-3 times more. As an English Teacher volunteer at Jardin de Amor, I saw the struggles in teaching English when the materials at hand are so few.
An adjacent school is currently in construction--many children are helping build it--and was planning on opening in November 2019. Originally, I had planned a visit this May 2020, but with Covid-19, unfortunately, things have become unsafe and I want to wait till things become safer. In the meantime, I plan to continuously gather as many donations as possible, aiming for a trip this Spring 2021.
1 of the school's success stories was an illiterate teenage girl who eventually went through college and became a teacher and more success stories can happen when children have access to more books to keep pushing themselves inside and outside of the classroom.
With very little supplies, these teachers try to foster a caring and supportive learning environment for these children. I know how much any school supplies and donations can do to help out these students, who make do with what little they have.
Some things I would want to buy are for the current school and the new school are:
- notebooks
- English instruction books (especially Spanish to English books)
- beginner English story books (illustrations, etc.)
- Spanish to English dictionaries
- pencils / pens / erasers
- calculators
- staplers / glue
- binders
- looseleaf paper
- mini projectors (budget-friendly)
- toilet paper
- soap
- crayons, colored pencils, etc.
-mini white-boards
- basketballs / toys
- some woolen clothes
- lamps (some of the classrooms were too dark and only had one lightbulb)
- some new laptops (the library has very old and bulky laptops)
- mini microphones for the teachers
- tools (hammers, nails, paint-brushes, screwdrivers, etc.) to use to help build the new adjacent school.
Please donate anything you can to help me out. If you have any material donations that you would like to give to me instead, please contact me. I really appreciate all of your help! Every penny that you donate will be used for this cause!
Lots of love and hugs and thanks! <3 :)
Below are some pictures of the school and village in Guatemala.
Teen pregnancy, illiteracy, and poverty have become a vicious cycle. The school is a ray of hope for many such people. Many of these children would not have been able to attend school (and could have undergone child labor), but Jardin de Amor helps them achieve a better life through education and nutrition and break through the vicious cycle of poverty. The school is run on donations.
Proper English books can help these students learn English systematically and earn 2-3 times more. As an English Teacher volunteer at Jardin de Amor, I saw the struggles in teaching English when the materials at hand are so few.
An adjacent school is currently in construction--many children are helping build it--and was planning on opening in November 2019. Originally, I had planned a visit this May 2020, but with Covid-19, unfortunately, things have become unsafe and I want to wait till things become safer. In the meantime, I plan to continuously gather as many donations as possible, aiming for a trip this Spring 2021.
1 of the school's success stories was an illiterate teenage girl who eventually went through college and became a teacher and more success stories can happen when children have access to more books to keep pushing themselves inside and outside of the classroom.
With very little supplies, these teachers try to foster a caring and supportive learning environment for these children. I know how much any school supplies and donations can do to help out these students, who make do with what little they have.
Some things I would want to buy are for the current school and the new school are:
- notebooks
- English instruction books (especially Spanish to English books)
- beginner English story books (illustrations, etc.)
- Spanish to English dictionaries
- pencils / pens / erasers
- calculators
- staplers / glue
- binders
- looseleaf paper
- mini projectors (budget-friendly)
- toilet paper
- soap
- crayons, colored pencils, etc.
-mini white-boards
- basketballs / toys
- some woolen clothes
- lamps (some of the classrooms were too dark and only had one lightbulb)
- some new laptops (the library has very old and bulky laptops)
- mini microphones for the teachers
- tools (hammers, nails, paint-brushes, screwdrivers, etc.) to use to help build the new adjacent school.
Please donate anything you can to help me out. If you have any material donations that you would like to give to me instead, please contact me. I really appreciate all of your help! Every penny that you donate will be used for this cause!
Lots of love and hugs and thanks! <3 :)
Below are some pictures of the school and village in Guatemala.
Organizer
Saniya Khullar
Organizer
Princeton Junction, NJ