My wife's just awesome. An unbiased opinion, naturally.
At the start of this semester Sarah initiated two charity drives at her school to raise money and awareness among her elementary school kids for selected causes. This fits in well with her graduate studies, and her dream - being involved in international relief work and grassroots development and education.
Here (pic) she is changing the bottles of pennies gathered by her students into money. We were standing at this change machine in Winn-Dixie from the better half of three hours! In her FREE time, because she's a teacher...
Pennies for Peace is a project of the non-profit Central Asia Institute (CAI). The organization focusses on community-based education, especially for young girls.
Pennies for Peace teaches children the rewards of sharing and working together to bring hope and educational opportunities to children in Pakistan and Afghanistan. A penny in the United States is virtually worthless, but in Pakistan and Afghanistan a penny buys a pencil and opens the door to literacy.
The penny, 1% of a dollar, is symbolic of the '1% of Gross Domestic Product' goal set by the United Nations. The goal was for wealthy countries to give foreign aid to impoverished nations each year.
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Good for you, Sarah! Keep it going! There is so much need in the world, also where I live. We are concerned about the small fishermen. 'Small' as opposed to large companies. With the over-fishing by large syndicates and the strict regulations, any family who used to make a living from the ocean really suffer.
A machine that changes pennies into real cash???? Only in America!!!
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