Global Community Partners: Proposal for Kings Victory Academy is back up!

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Proposal for Kings Victory Academy is back up!

Our proposal on the Give Meaning website is back up! Please vote!! It takes only a few minutes but each vote is important to me and the school community we are raising funds for! I need 93 votes by June 28th in order to go to the next level of actually raising the funds for this project! You can click on the title of this blog and it will take you directly to the site.

A brief synopsis of the project: Raising funds ($2500 total) to contribute to the completion/renovation of buildings at Kings Victory High School in Blantyre, Malawi, as well as contributing about half ($1260) of that to school fees for the youth that attend the school but may become orphaned or are orphaned through the misfortune of losing a parent or both parents to HIV/AIDS.

Some people may wonder why there are school fees for secondary school (junior high and high school). In countries like the U.S. public education is free all the way through high school because it is something the government has established and tax dollars go towards funding these schools. They also receive funding from the state as well as the federal level, under different budgets/funds/revenues. But countries like the U.S. generate a lot of revenue. In a country such as Malawi, in Sub-Saharan Africa, only an elementary school education is compulsory and free. Beyond that, students have to pay a fee to continue their education. Perhaps it seems that these countries are not placing education as a priority, but in countries like Malawi, everything is a priority - all basic needs. When a country is impoverished, although it is tragic, education cannot be free when the budget is spread so thin. Of course there are many other factors influencing this budget but I'll not get into that here. So, you see? School fees are a reality and a necessity in these countries in order to operate the schools, pay the staff, and provide an education for the children. And that is why I propose that we raise funds for those orphans and impoverished youth that have difficulty paying for their education and are faced with no option but to drop-out....

So please go and vote!! And tell all your friends to vote!! Thanks. :)

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