We are raising money for Pennies for Peace!
Pennies for Peace is a charity that aims to build schools in rural areas in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Pennies For Peace build schools for boys and girls, but mostly girls. That’s because most girls can’t get education in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
In Korphe (where Pennies for peace built their first school) the kids use to write on the ground with sticks because they didn’t have pencils or paper. Korphe is in the mountains so it’s really cold. They had no school building either! The teacher only came three times a week, so when the teacher wasn’t there they reviewed what he taught them outside in the cold. Greg (the person who started Pennies for Peace) felt sorry for them. So he started Pennies for Peace to raise money to help them build a school.
Pennies for Peace collects pennies. One hundred yen is a teacher’s salary for a day, or pays a month worth of school for one kid in rural Pakistan. With one yen you can buy a pencil but many kids don't have pencils. So that is why we decided to collect money for Pennies For Peace. There is a jar on Oku san’s desk in our school. Please put your one yens in the jar and help children in the rural areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan to go to school.
Our bazaar for Pennies For Peace is on March the 22nd. You can help by giving things to us so we can sell them. We will have a talent show too! Please volunteer to entertain everybody or help us on the day.
Collect collect collect one yens!
What a worthy prject and a lovely post too Meg, well done.
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