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Help Luke and I save the future of three amazing children

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First benchmark of $800 achieved - Thank you!
Second benchmark of $1,600 achieved - THANK YOU!

Please help me provide one year of education for three children, who are in critical need. The youngest two are first year high schoolers, a boy named Emmanuel and a girl named Gloria.

Both children do not have parents, and have nothing to their name. I have met their teachers and the people in their communities.

The second is a young man is Stephen, who Luke befriended, who was also orphaned. Stephen is 18 years old, and needs a little bit to pay for his final year of high school. He desperately want to graduate and work toward a trade in as an electrician, with a goal of bringing power and water access to his village.

Luke and I need your support. PLEASE - IF YOU ARE READING THIS - watch my 10 minute video about what I am trying to do. All money raised will go directly to their education, not to some NGO. I am managing their school accounts, their healthcare and whatever I can for their future.

Here's what your money will go to, tuition and essentials:
  • Food at school, clean drinking water
  • One pair of shoes (they do not have shoes)
  • Two uniforms (no, they do not have uniforms)
  • Calculator (For Stephen)
  • 3 Backpacks
  • Payment to school (Every parent pays for their children to attend school)

OK, Gloria is different. She is being protected from being taken, sold into marriage and potentially being a cultural victim to female circumcision (aka, genital mutilation). I am try to raise additional funding to get her two years in a boarding school where I know both the Principal (an amazing woman who protects the girls) and I know the Deputy Governor. She will be safe, and grow with dignity.

All proceeds collected will be allocated as follows:
1 year of health care needs, per the school principals request
Additional vocational support for Stephen as he progresses toward vocational training (ie. driving school)
Equally distributed funding for following year's tuition and educational support.

Benchmarks:
  • $800 (Minimum) Gets all three children a year of education, Stephen Graduated.
  • $1600 Gets Emmanuel and Gloria through 2 years of education, Stephen driving school or 1st year vocation kickstart.
  • $2400 Gets all children completely educated, fed and safe.

I am not yet sure of vocational costs, or further support for Stephen ... however my goal is to get hi where all Dads want to get their young boys, to where they can stand on their own and succeed. We can do this.

All supporters will be updated on this page with videos, letters and updates of how the children are progressing.
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Donations 

  • Meegan Panzarella
    • $300
    • 3 mos
  • Pati Osterstock
    • $25
    • 3 mos
  • Brian Mitchell
    • $25
    • 3 mos
  • Pete Elder
    • $200
    • 3 mos
  • Dale Horton
    • $25
    • 3 mos
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Adam Mitchell
Organizer
Mahopac, NY

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