Having spent 10 years in Asia, Vicky is acutely aware of the poverty and lack of funding for schools in poorer regions and was excited when her friend, Kris Webb started a charity rebuilding and equipping schools in East Timor. KidsLibrary is thrilled to team up with Spend it Well and send our ‘too worn’ toys and ‘too thumbed’ books to East Timor where they will be loved and appreciated.
Spend it
Well is working to help educate children in the tiny nation of East Timor which
borders Indonesia. East Timor is incredibly poor and its children rank on a par
with Afghanistan and Yemen as the most malnourished in the world. Despite their
poverty, the East Timorese consistently nominate education for their children
as their highest priority. Currently however, less than half of all East
Timorese children attend primary school.
The Charity works with Kirsty Sword Gusmao (the Prime Minister's wife)
and East Timor's Ministry of Education to identify schools in need and improve
them by building new classrooms. Projects usually cost around US$40,000 and are
completed in less than a year. All administrative costs are funded separately,
so 100% of donations go directly to the school. Spend it Well has built four
schools in the last three years and is working to put in place programs such as
scholarships and school feeding in those schools. Spend it Well is currently
working to identify the school which it will build in 2012.
To have a
look at some of the projects Spend It Well has completed visit their website at
http://www.spenditwell.com/projects/index.html.
You can also donate funds. We would like to team up with charities closer
to home so if you know of any worthy causes, please call us on 0845 1162630 or
email Jack at jack@kidslibrary.co.uk
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