Educate Young People about the Environment

OperationREAD is a ProjectEDUCATE initiative designed to help educate and teach children in Zambia to read. Last year, we embarked on a partnership with GlobalGiving Designed to help raise funds to support project implementation. While the initial phase was met with success, subsequent phases have been fraught with challenges, of which funding is not the least.

With the funds that were raised in phase one, we were able to make significant strides and were able to introduce the initiative into a total of 10 schools. Working with schools to identify struggling children and provide them with the one on one support they needed to improve their reading skills.

In phase one, we were also able to engage technology to help improve reading skills among primary school going children. This also was met with considerable success as both teachers and students were eager to try out new techniques and technology offered them a different way to learn, breaking down the pattern of monotony enshrined in current teaching methods.

Unfortunately the gains made in the first phase of the project are being undermined by the lack of resources. While implementation has continued at a slow pace relying mainly on the efforts and support of volunteer personnel, the project will have to fold if we cannot raise the remaining funds in the next few months.

We encourage previous donors to consider making a tax-deductible contribution to help sustain the project. Further we also encourage donors and would be donors to help spread the word about their project by sharing the work with their networks. There is strength in numbers and we certain, with their continued support, we can help educate and teach children in Zambia to read.

Conservation Nation was designed to work with young people to raise awareness about the importance of the environment and the role individuals and communities have to play in protecting and conserving it. Beyond that the initiative works to seek and implement locally relevant interventions to the challenge of climate change adaptation and mitigation. While the project has begun operating, it has been heavily reliant on volunteer support thereby restricting its range and scope. To help address this, we designed a fundraising campaign however implementation has thus far been hampered by staffing challenges.

Given the challenges encountered, we are currently encouraging previous donors to consider making recurring donations of as little as $10 a month. While minimal, it will go a long way in helping to meet the desired goal.

We are also asking previous donors to share information about the project with their networks. The idea is to spread the word and find strength and success in numbers and also to encourage new donors to consider encouraging those in their networks to support his work as well.

Even with the challenges the project is achieving results and has been able to work with schools to plant trees at schools as well as start tree nurseries.

In moving forward, we hope to raise the needed funding in order to be able to implement the project in its entirety and thus encourage donors to not only donate but consider making recurring donations and just as important sharing the project and encourage their networks to donate. Without their unwavering support, our work would not be possible.

Links:

• Conservation Nation website