Donate – Pen Drive
Give a pen to a student in Africa!
Please sponsor a student’s pen by making a donation before Friday Jan 12th… ***A FOR ONE WORLD BOARD MEMBER WILL PERSONALLY HAND THE PEN TO A GRADE SCHOOL STUDENT IN GHANA ON YOUR BEHALF*** Your pledge will be applied to For One World (Federally registered nonprofit) causes.
Note: Due to the PayPal transaction fees (2.9% + $0.30 USD) the minimum donation on the website is $5. You can also donate by sending a check to For One World: P.O. box 176 South Lyme, CT 06376
Donate 5 Pens for $5 USD – | |
Donate 10 Pens for $10 USD – | |
Donate 20 Pens for $20 USD – | |
Donate 50 Pens for $50 USD – | |
Donate 100 Pens for $100 USD – |
Background:
Four board members are traveling to the Ayi Owen International grade school in Ghana, West Africa (www.ayiintl.com) in January 2008. Back in 1998 a college student lead organization called For One World provided the initial funds for the first classroom at the school run today by founder Ayisatu Owen. Today the school has about 250 pupils/20 teachers and For One World is a federally registered 501c3 dedicated to developing an effective low cost educational model with a travel scholarship program for volunteers (College students) who want to spend over a month at the school and scholarships for students in need at Ayi Owen International School. Last year’s “Pen Drive” was a great success with over 200 personal thank you letters written by the students to those who donated. Unfortunately those irreplaceable letters were stolen along with other luggage. This year we hope to again collect letters (not as many this time) and post several of them on our web site. Thank you for your contribution!