By Melissa Rancourt | Founder of greenlight for girls
You should see our office. Shelves and shelves and boxes and boxes of treasured learning that has been passed on from our young girls around the world to help another less fortunate. We ask the participants, young girls from the ages of 11 to 15 (and their parents), to bring a book or two to donate when they arrive at one of our greenlight for girls' events. Now with the most recent events behind us, our shelves are filled again. The girls have left inscribed books with personal messages of support and encouragement to a child in another part of the world. They have donated their favourite stories of science, discover, nature, languages, health - everything to make a science library come to life in another part of the world.
Where are these books traveling to? As you may remember, our last shipment traveled to Kinshasa - where we have the chance to also conduct events with local girls to encourage further studies and learning, especially with science. With your support - and a bit more - we'll have enough funds to ship these books to an amazing school and orphanage in the Cameroon. The location for our very first science library, we learned that many of these children do not get a chance to study science until they are much, much older - so they asked is if we could help them learn at the earliest of ages to spark interest & understanding by providing books. They are ready for more - and we have them ready to ship!
Next - we are beginning our work for greenlight for girls in Nigeria & Kenya - and we will be looking for communities in need to send our next Science Library so.... stay tuned!
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