Saturday, November 1, 2008

Chance to donate!

Hello again. I have a proposition for those who read this. As I´ve written about here before, me and four other volunteers have started a group called Captain Planet (yup, sounds familiar) and we travel around to different schools and hold a day long ecological fair for the kids. I´m Water and wear a costume and teach kids about the water cycle and how much water there is on our world and we play a game. The other members are Fire, Air,Earth and Animals. Each of us does our own mini lecture or game or whatever fun way we´ve decided to teach our topic. So far we´ve visited 8 schools in three different provinces and will be to three more next month. Then we will take a break during the summer and startback up again with school in March to finish the other provinces. It´s been absolutely wonderful and the kids have loved it. It´s definitely very different than their typical school day. There are some pictures here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2134268&l=bed67&id=25901829
But so here´s where you could potentially come into this Captain Planet picture. We have applied for a Peace Corps Partnership Grant to help us pay for the travel expenses and food and materials and all such things. While this project is super fun, it´s been kind of draining on us as traveling around visiting a bunch of different schools all over the country isn´t exactly cheap. Buses, ocassionally a night in a hotel between communities, food, costume material and teaching materials. All that goodness. And a PC Partnership Grant is one that anybody can contribute to. So all I´m asking is that if you can, if you want to, if you have some spare funds, you can donate $1,$5, $10, $100 (haha) whatever you wish. And the wonderful part of this is you know EXACTLY where the money is going! You won´t be donating to some general ¨Peace Corps Panamᨠfund but rather directly to our project. All you have to do is go to this link:
https://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=resources.donors.contribute.projDetail&projdesc=525-102
Put the amount you want to donate into that box on the right side of the page, hit the button Donate and fill out the information on the next page. Super easy. So if you were maybe wondering how you could help me out in this spectacular Peace Corps adventure of mine, here´s an idea. It´ll only take a minute! So thanks in advance for any and all donations. Or at least for reading here about what I do. Really if this isn´t your thing don´t worry about it. I mean we´re doing the project anyway. Like I said, we´ve already visited 8 schools. Just looking now for a little help inwhatever way possible. Thanks again!

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