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College Tuition for 50
The Bunker Hill Community College located in Boston, Massachusetts, has started a Group FUNdraiser through Embrace Relief to support girls’ college education.
The Bunker Hill students understand that many girls in Africa cannot meet their educational needs, due to financial inadequacy, gender inequality, and unequal opportunities. In order to compensate for these shortcomings, they decided to raise money for them.
Through this fundraiser, young girls will receive financial support to attend college. This includes tuition, meals, housing, transportation, as well as access to printing, books, and more.
Girls will have the opportunity to pursue a higher education and gain skills to create a financially stable future for them and their families. Girls who receive an education become empowered, smart, and self-sufficient women who can break through the educational and workforce gender inequality barriers and pave a path for the future of all girls.
55 Cataract Surgeries
The Bunker Hill Community College located in Boston, Massachusetts, has started a Group FUNdraiser through Embrace Relief to sponsor cataract surgeries in Mali, Africa.
Most people in Africa, especially those over a certain age, suffer from cataracts. However, due to malnutrition, illness, and climate conditions, cataracts also affects children. Insufficient resources, equipment, and financial conditions have prohibited thousands of people from getting the necessary operations – which can be done as little as 15 minutes. They have decided to raise money for cataract surgeries in Africa to find a solution.
Clean Water for All
Pioneer Academy Projects
The Pioneer Academy of Wayne, New Jersey has partnered in collaboration with Embrace Relief to start and complete three humanitarian projects.
The Pioneer Academy will collect funds to support two library projects and one water well Tanzania.
Through these fundraisers, the Pioneer Academy will use the collected funds to build two completely new libraries that will include renovating and converting a room in the Pwani Primary School and the Mwambo Primary School into fully-functioning libraries. The students will fill it with books, furniture, shelves, desks, fifteen computers, and other library features. These computers come from Embrace Relief’s Accessible Computer Technology for Under-served Students (ACT-US) Program. The computers come pre-installed with education programs and can be remotely updated from headquarters in both California and Kenya. This will allow students who have little to no access to the internet to access up-to-date information and knowledge. Furthermore, this library will provide students an inviting, safe, and stimulating place to learn.
The students of the Pioneer Academy also recognize the urgent and dire need for clean water in African countries such as Tanzania. This group of students understands that there are millions of people around the world at any given moment who do not have access to clean water. This causes malnutrition, debilitating dehydration, lack of mental capacity, stunts growth, and can cause life-threatening waterborne diseases such as cholera, dysentery, typhoid, hepatitis, and more. This water well will be located next to a school that will benefit the entire community as well as the students. The Pioneer Academy water well will improve hygiene, health, and overall quality of life.
Water Well for Tanzania
The Pioneer Academy located in Wayne, New Jersey, has started a Group FUNdraiser through Embrace Relief to install a water well in Tanzania. This group of students understands that there are millions of people around the world at any given moment who do not have access to clean water. This causes malnutrition, debilitating dehydration, lack of mental capacity, stunts growth, and can cause life-threatening waterborne diseases such as cholera, dysentery, typhoid, hepatitis, and more.
Pwani Library Project
The Pioneer Academy located in Wayne, New Jersey, has started a Group FUNdraiser through Embrace Relief for a new library for the Pwani Primary School in Tanzania. Through this fundraiser, collected funds will go towards a completely new library that will include building a new building and filling it with books, furniture, shelves, and other library features. This library will provide students a safe and stimulating place to learn. Unfortunately, many libraries in Africa are rundown and lack up-to-date information and knowledge. This library will give the children of this school access to an inviting space for them to learn.
ACT-US : Technology Brought to 7,000+ Students in Sub-Saharan Africa
COMPUTERS HAVE BROUGHT DIGITAL LITERACY AND SELF SUFFICIENCY TO 7,000+ STUDENTS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Computers are the modern day’s answer to an encyclopedia, providing us with unlimited knowledge at our fingertips. Embrace Relief’s program (or Accessible Computer Technology for Under-Served Students (ACT-US) has provided over 7,000 students in Uganda and Tanzania with 324 educationally pre-installed computers. Coupling education with self-sufficiency, these computers come pre-installed with programs to teach its users things like math, writing, and science as well as agriculture, sanitation, and personal finance. They can also be remotely updated from headquarters in California and Nairobi, Kenya, as they are equipped with Endless OS technology. Digital literacy and education are the foundation blocks of a successful society. With it comes a thriving economy, agriculture, less disease and illness, and a higher quality of life. Furthermore, this ACT-US aligns with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal #4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning.
In April 2020, a ceremony will take place to mark the completion of Phase 1 of ACT-US. In attendance will be representatives from the U.S. Embassy in Uganda, the African Union, the Nile Humanitarian Development Agency (NHDA), the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of ICT, all of whom have played an integral part in making this program possible.
Phase 2 of ACT-US will see over 1,000 computers being delivered, expanding its reach to include Kenya and Ethiopia which will reach tens of thousands of students in Africa.
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