Please help! From an impoverished school in Uganda, where she is administering our Teens Connecting Continents Uganda project (see Walk the Walk and Global Work) Change the World Kid Alum Alanna proposed that would help make a dramatic change for the health of the schoolchildren. Help start a small farm to create a reliable source of food! Some days the children have no food at all, and when there is food, their diet is meager.  People in the community are anxious to grow crops, and some have offered to donate animals to the school, but land is expensive.  If many of us contribute even a small amount, we can purchase the land and help with start-up costs.

On Friday, May 27, we held our second Great Garments for Global Good clothing sale, followed by our annual yard sale on the lawn on Saturday, May 28. Shoppers declared that they found quality items, bargains, great finds, and had fun! Both events offered a creative solution to get things out of your home, and make a positive difference for our communities and planet.  This is an annual event put on by the Change The World Kids, so look for it again next year in May!

Walk the Walk 2011 was a huge success! Part of our Teens Connecting Continents Uganda project, this effort raises funds to support the education and health of children in Uganda who suffered during its twenty-year civil war. Child soldiers. Girls and boys beset by violence of many types. We cannot take away their histories, but we can make a difference for their futures.

During the Ugandan Civil War, thousands of children walked and ran miles each night to escape the atrocities of the war. Now these displaced children – many orphans – walk miles each day seeking food, education, and shelter. 

Walk the Walk 2011 encouraged people to go beyond “talking the talk” and take steps to action, metaphorically representing the nightly wartime walks of these children. Over 150 people participated, and we raised over $2,000 support sustainable quality education for this rising generation of impoverished Ugandans, abandoned through conflicts and diseases of war!

Last year one of the Change the World Kids went to Uganda and helped put the Walk the Walk 2010 funds to work building and supporting schools. That money provided:

• New books, pencils, pen, paper, and soap to 200 students
• New uniforms (sewn by a village tailor) for 2 schools
• New shoes for 2 schools
• Medic first aid kits for 2 schools
• The repair of an old well so an entire village can have clean water
• Renovation and building supplies for 2 schools
• Bunk-beds, with sheets, pillows, toothbrushes, a new book and stuffed animal for each child at a new school
• A month of a breakfast/lunch program for 47 the students in that school