By David Dewane | Project Director
I want to offer my sincere thanks to all who helped make the August fundraising drive a success. By achieving our goal of $3,000 we’ve secured an extended relationship with GlobalGiving, which is an important step in the early stages in this project’s development.
One contribution in particular stuck me as interesting. It was the donation that actually took us over the $3,000 mark and came from an individual named Erik Schaefer. Erik is childhood friend from Wisconsin lives in South Korea. Since we’ve lived oceans away from each other much longer than we ever spent in the same community, the majority of our relationship has been carried out via the Internet. From his desk in Asia he decided to transfer funds to a friend in North America for a project in Africa. It’s interesting that nothing about this situation is very shocking; these are commonplace realities in 2010.
But not for everyone. Unfortunately, some of the basic resources that have made a relationship like Erik and mine even possible are out of reach for many. This project is about supplying those tools to anyone interested in taking advantage of them.
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