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Eagles go Global with Kiva |
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Kiva is an non-profit organization that promotes a sense of global responsibility in AIS-R eagles. We inspire to raise awareness of global issues, especially poverty and hunger. Kiva members play a direct role in alleviating poverty through loans to worthy entrepreneurs in developing states. "Leveraging the internet and a worldwide network of micro-finance institutions, Kiva lets individuals lend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world." It isn't a donation of $25. Your act of kindness is a business transaction. You invest $25 into another person for their business and they will pay you back with no interest. You can then withdraw the money or reinvest it in another person in need. We, as AIS-R eagles, are fortunate in that we have been given the chance to help underprivileged people create better lives for themselves and their families. Join Kiva and make a difference!
Click here to join: http://www.kiva.org/team/aisr
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Greg Mortenson, the author of, Three Cups of Tea, is a humanitarian activist and founder of a foundation that builds schools in remote areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. This year, the MUN club sold bracelets as part of the Pennies for Peace worldwide effort to support Greg Mortenson’s foundation to help the spread of education in the world. These colorful bracelets can now be seen on the wrists of many AIS-R students and teachers. The MUN club raised approximately 16,000 SAR through the Pennies for Peace project. |
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The ONE club has held bake sales and had booths at Family Fun Day to collect donations sent to charities through World Vision. $500 has already been donated as a loan for five impoverished women to start up or expand their small businesses in Africa. When these loans are re-paid they are used as loans to help other women in need, resulting in an ongoing chain of making a difference. Another $500 raised was donated to the Clean Water Fund; a project in Niger that has helped cut child deaths by more than 50%. Unsafe water and poor sanitation kills nearly 1.5 million children a year, so the Clean Water Fund helps bring clean water and improved sanitation to communities in need.
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The Walking for Water fundraising project was begun during the 2008-2009 school year by a group of NJHS students. Now the project is being run by the MUN Club and includes both the middle and high school. Students who participate in Walking for Water get into groups of three or four to make their “family.” A family is then given a bucket of “dirty” water to carry around the track for as many laps as they can complete in about 45 minutes. Each family also has to get sponsors who commit to pay a certain amount of money for the number of laps each family completes.
Walking for Water symbolizes how, on average, people must walk 6km a day or 3 hours to fetch drinking water. It helps bring awareness to the more than 2 billion people around the world who lack a safe supply of water. Each day almost 10,000 children under the age of 5 in developing countries die as a result of illnesses contracted by use of impure water. Finally, it reminds us how fortunate we are to be living in a society that has clean water easily available. Walking for Water has, in just the past 2 years, raised over 26,000 SAR for UNICEF clean water projects. Our next Walking for Water event will take place on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 on World Water Day. |
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Children of Haiti Project |
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AIS-R has been involved in the Children of Haiti Project since its inception, in February of 2010, and has already contributed over 35,000 SAR to support the education of two Haitian students in the program. This money has been generated by over 20 different student-led fund-raising initiatives in which all grade levels have participated.
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