Help Build a School
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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.
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.Fundraising team (3)
Jenny Santos
Organizer
North Andover, MA
WE Charity
Beneficiary
Kyle White
Team member
Brendan Miller
Team member