Dhahran Middle School Walkathon
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Author: Tricia Franck
Released 8 April 2007
Dhahran Middle School Walkathon
Photograph Contibuted by Charlie Franck
Three years ago the Dhahran Middle School Walkathon began with the intention of helping the Tsunami victims in Southeast Asia. This school wide event is now an annual event. In the third annual walkathon, "Helping People Help Themselves Around the World", which took place on March 14, 2007, over $10,000 was raised. This money will be distributed between selected charities that support sustainability in their development work. Through scholarships, job training, building schools and community development these seven charities have helped thousands of families.
Bainbridge-Ometepe Sister Island Organization – Nicaragua
This organization was established in 1986, and has won numerous civic awards and recognition in the greater Seattle and Washington area. The organization promotes two fold communications between the two cultures, and has been responsible for establishing schools, water systems, housing, and other development for the island of Ometepe in Nicaragua. Our money will go to the scholarship fund, which helps send deserving high school students of the island to Nicaraguan colleges.
Eugene L Watrin Scholarship Endowment Fund of Nepal
Rev. Eugene L. Watrin, Jesuit missionary to Nepal, pioneer in educational and social work there, founder of a Jesuit college, celebrated athlete, friend of the late King Birendra, and beloved "bicycle priest", died February 29, 2004, at B & B Hospital in Katmandu, Nepal, after a prolonged battle with pancreatic cancer. “Gene” Watrin devoted over 50 years of his life to the people of Nepal, one of the poorest countries in the world. This scholarship fund will help in the education of the children of Nepal.
Hillcrest Advice Bureau and Bursary Fund
For nine years students, parents, teachers, and other community members have helped us build classrooms in impoverished areas of South Africa as part of the Zululand OOK trip. Since some of those students are now college age, we would like to help them and students like them continue their education. Your donations will go toward the Hillcrest Advice Bureau and Bursary Fund which makes funds available for the college education of children from poor Zulu families.
Mercy Corps, which is based in Portland, Oregon, provides relief and long term development. Since 1979, it has provided $1 billion in assistance to people in 94 countries and currently runs development programs in more than 40 countries. Whenever there is a conflict or disaster, Mercy Corps is one of the first non-governmental organizations to arrive. They also establish sustainable economic development in developing countries. For example, they teach livestock breeders in Lebanon less costly ways to grow feed, build temporary classrooms in Darfur's refugee camps, construct all-girls schools in the West Bank, show residents in Central Asia ways to promote peace among neighbors and demonstrate more efficient farming techniques in South Sudan.
The Alex Fund
The mission of The Alex Fund is to promote self-sufficiency among marginalized people through education, job training and community development. The Alex Fund develops and supports programs in the US and Romania that focus on alleviating the cycle of poverty. A primary beneficiary of The Alex Fund is the Fiecare Copil in Scoala ("Every Child in School") program in Romania, managed by Asociatia Ovidiu Rom. This is a long-term strategy to eradicate school abandonment caused by poverty.
UNICEF – United Nations
The Ogata Initiative
Community-based schools bring hope to Afghanistan’s remote settlements. The Ogata Initiative supports education. It is a regional comprehensive development assistance program established by the government of Japan and supported by Afghanistan’s Ministry of Education and UNICEF. The initiative provided education opportunities to nearly 3,000 children in Afghanistan in 2006.
World Vision – Orphan Agriculture
“Seeds, Tools and Training.”
Widespread crop failure has left millions of African children hungry and on the edge of survival. Thanks to U.S. government grants, your gift will help provide things like vegetable, cereal and grain seeds, tools such as hoes and watering cans, and training to help each family produce the most bountiful harvest possible Thus, helping to make these children self sufficient.