Please Help the Cause: It’s for the Kids

Update: We raised the money within 48 hours! Thanks so much to everyone who contributed (9 donations). Awesome.

Usually I steer clear of posting personal things on this blog, but I wanted to ask for support in helping a great cause.

My youngest sister is part of Teach for America. She’s spent the last year and a half in an extremely impoverished and isolated area of New Mexico, working on a Navajo Indian Reservation as a high school history teacher.

She teaches some great kids, but the unfortunate reality is that her students are even more under-resourced than most; reservations are actually considered sovereign nations and not technically part of the United States. Poverty is rampant.

One item that my sister desperately needs is a projector. The need, as she describes it, is as follows:

Living three hours from the nearest major city prevents my students from having the same exposure to museums, photographs, libraries, stores, and resources as their peers. My students have mostly lived in this area for several generations and have had little experience with travel. Without exposure to other places and cultures, students have trouble gaining perspective and visualizing our discussions on history. As students get older, they will go to college without the same background information that their peers have experienced.

She has already qualified for a 50% grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, so the amount to raise is now only $505

I’m planning a trip out to visit her for Thanksgiving and would love to be able to help her get the projector in time for the Holidays.

Any amount you can give is great; as Matt Damon says to Vince in this past season of Entourage, “It’s for the kids.â€�

Click the image below to go to her Donor’s Choose Page and donate:

Image of the area:

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