Donate a Dollar (or change, or hundreds) Day

Lincoln Park Involvement Fair enthusiasm, fabulous.  Turnout at first large meeting, more fabulous. A huge thanks to everyone that came. Hopefully something gripped your interest and you want to come back for more. Please do, bring friends. Anyone who missed the meeting, just catch the next one! This year can be awesome, with fun events for us and supplies collected for Africa; we just have to collaborate our ideas and energy, awesomeness shall ensue.

Our first event, Tuesday, September 30, is Donate a Dollar Day.  This will be all over both the LP and Loop campuses, centered at the student centers. It sounds small, but really the impact of a dollar in Africa is HUGE.  Also, imagine the possibility if everyone at DePaul donated, $23,000.  A huge collective price, for a third of a cup of coffee individually. 

Rockin' Schools for Schools

            In recent years Northern Uganda has been approaching the first signs of peace.  While this is an awesome step forward for the country, it is also a reminder of the significant amount of rebuilding required in war-ravished Northern Uganda.  It may seem like there is little help we can offer, but thanks to Invisible Children’s Schools for Schools initiative, there is actually a lot we can do!

         Schools for Schools gives us the opportunity to raise money to build safe schools for Ugandan youth, complete with supplies and skilled teachers. Northern Uganda used to have at least five schools in the top ten of the country.  Now, they have none in the top 100.  This is our chance to change that and enhance their future by allowing the country to build up from the foundation, the youth.  

Instead of having our money go into some great black hole or corporate pockets as with some groups, the money that we collect goes directly to Layibi Secondary School in Northern Uganda to give students access to drinkable water and improve sanitation to save lives. Also, this year Schools for Schools program added a book drive so that book you finished last year and will never pick up again has potential to become a child's gate to education!

         Here is the final line:  We have 100 days to collect as much money and as many books as possible to help give these kids the education they deserve and a bright future for Northern Uganda.  Let's do it!

 

http://www.invisiblechildren.com/theMission/schools_for_schools

http://s4s.invisiblechildren.com/school/layibi-secondary