For Salome.
I have never met this little girl called Salome. This is her picture. She is an adorable little child. She lives in Litein in Kenya. She wants to go to school and through our little Jazzercise group of about 15 women and a small group of caring folks who began the "Keep the Circle Strong" group, we managed to raise enough money for her to go to school for 3 years. We had aimed for 1 year
Wow! It started as a little project selling CD's and swapping used books for $1 at our morning Jazzercise classes.
Then Karen and Karen and Brenda had the idea that we could have a fund raiser and it quickly grew into the little fundraiser that could. Many people graciously donated prizes and pieces of fine art.
To be honest at first we were afraid that only a few of us would show up. We hoped for 50 because we had arranged for the fund raiser to be a full Jazzercise class for women and girls in a large gymnasium.
We were afraid that we would be the only ones there.
The place was full, I don't know the count but there must have been 70 plus. The room was loud and pumped and hot and full of energy.
What a lot of work went into this project! There was a large thermometer gradiated to show how much we had raised throughout the morning. We watched it grow from $500 to over $1700 as people bought entry tickets, silent auction tickets and draw tickets for prizes.
It was so well organized. They thought of everything from tickets to auction sheets. They dragooned family members to help sell tickets and take pictures.
We are very proud of ourselves as one more little girl, born into destitute poverty gets a chance to become the community leader she was born to be and she will help raise the conciousness of a downtrodden people with her education. She will become part of a new movement of educated women that take their families out of economic slavery. They will eventually save the world.
And I am learning to become the person I would like to be.
I have never met this little girl called Salome. This is her picture. She is an adorable little child. She lives in Litein in Kenya. She wants to go to school and through our little Jazzercise group of about 15 women and a small group of caring folks who began the "Keep the Circle Strong" group, we managed to raise enough money for her to go to school for 3 years. We had aimed for 1 year
Wow! It started as a little project selling CD's and swapping used books for $1 at our morning Jazzercise classes.
Then Karen and Karen and Brenda had the idea that we could have a fund raiser and it quickly grew into the little fundraiser that could. Many people graciously donated prizes and pieces of fine art.
To be honest at first we were afraid that only a few of us would show up. We hoped for 50 because we had arranged for the fund raiser to be a full Jazzercise class for women and girls in a large gymnasium.
We were afraid that we would be the only ones there.
The place was full, I don't know the count but there must have been 70 plus. The room was loud and pumped and hot and full of energy.
What a lot of work went into this project! There was a large thermometer gradiated to show how much we had raised throughout the morning. We watched it grow from $500 to over $1700 as people bought entry tickets, silent auction tickets and draw tickets for prizes.
It was so well organized. They thought of everything from tickets to auction sheets. They dragooned family members to help sell tickets and take pictures.
We are very proud of ourselves as one more little girl, born into destitute poverty gets a chance to become the community leader she was born to be and she will help raise the conciousness of a downtrodden people with her education. She will become part of a new movement of educated women that take their families out of economic slavery. They will eventually save the world.
And I am learning to become the person I would like to be.
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