Who knows what the ripple effect will be? 250 lives forever changed by our little army that could. On October 31, our big hairy goal was EXCEEDED *insert crazy jumping and down*! $10,000 (and counting!) has come in from men and women all over the world. Three weeks into the month we were praying we’d at least make half the goal (and even that seemed like a stretch.) But we also desired to do something much larger: Draw a community together. We were ready to stand up for their renewed independence. We were ready to stand for our African sisters. That works out to $40 per girl for an entire year. The price tag for one school? A big whopping $10,000. So, we set out to come alongside Living Hope’s Keep a Girl in School initiative that provides a young woman with life skills training, sanitary towels and underwear for one year. They are overlooked for leadership roles and positions of influence in their country. Without an education, their options become severely limited. Once they drop out of school, these girls often have no choice but to leave home, marry, and bear children. Missing a week or so each month, they eventually get so behind they have to drop out. Without basic necessities like underwear and sanitary pads, girls are (understandably) too embarrassed to attend school. We kicked off the month of October with a big, hairy dream: to sponsor a school of 250 worldchangers-to-be in Uganda.īetween 40-50 percent of young women in Gulu, Uganda drop out of school when they get their period. WE DID IT! WE DID IT! WE ALL DID IT! Thank you for your amazing support and Love.
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