Help Fund Outdoor Leadership Education
Last summer, July 2013, I spent five weeks living in Sikkim, India, a small and isolated state in the Indian Himalayas. My English professor at Guilford College, Heather Hayton, led myself and seven other Guilford students to the region to study the politics of the region as well as to begin building relationships with four K-8 schools in Sikkim.
Our group received a $1,000 grant from the Center for Principled Problem Solving at Guilford to help pay for books for us to take with us to donate to the schools. In order to foster students' love of reading at the schools we visited (2 private, 2 public) we decided to take books for the K-8 students. The best way to transport books to the region is to fly them over in duffel bags. This summer, Heather and Lindsay, one of my classmates, and I are going back to Sikkim to continue working with the schools that we visitied previously.
Our long term goal in this project is to work with the schools to create a sustainable model plan of funding in order to maintain the schools supplies of books for the students, classroom materials, and teachers salaries.
I am raising money to pay for the flight to India (average cost of a round trip flight from Atlanta to Delhi is $2,000) as well as money to pay for the program cost for the trip this summer.
Returning to Sikkim this summer is very important to me, as I dedicate myself, my skills, and my compassion, to students who deserve an education and who deserve to be in a school where their learning is valued above anything else. As a child growing up in an elementary school that had unlimited resources for the students, I was able to explore that which I was interested in, and found great joy in learning, exploring, and continuing to find challenges that excited myself and my community of fellow learners. By continuing to work with the schools in Sikkim I hope that I can help to foster this same intention of learning and loving to learn among the students.
Any contribution that you feel comfortable making is greatly appreciated.
If you want to learn more about the region or our trip to Sikkim last summer, here is a link to the blog that we created with several short essays that we wrote during our five week stay in Sikkim: http://lettersfromsikkim.wordpress.com/
Our group received a $1,000 grant from the Center for Principled Problem Solving at Guilford to help pay for books for us to take with us to donate to the schools. In order to foster students' love of reading at the schools we visited (2 private, 2 public) we decided to take books for the K-8 students. The best way to transport books to the region is to fly them over in duffel bags. This summer, Heather and Lindsay, one of my classmates, and I are going back to Sikkim to continue working with the schools that we visitied previously.
Our long term goal in this project is to work with the schools to create a sustainable model plan of funding in order to maintain the schools supplies of books for the students, classroom materials, and teachers salaries.
I am raising money to pay for the flight to India (average cost of a round trip flight from Atlanta to Delhi is $2,000) as well as money to pay for the program cost for the trip this summer.
Returning to Sikkim this summer is very important to me, as I dedicate myself, my skills, and my compassion, to students who deserve an education and who deserve to be in a school where their learning is valued above anything else. As a child growing up in an elementary school that had unlimited resources for the students, I was able to explore that which I was interested in, and found great joy in learning, exploring, and continuing to find challenges that excited myself and my community of fellow learners. By continuing to work with the schools in Sikkim I hope that I can help to foster this same intention of learning and loving to learn among the students.
Any contribution that you feel comfortable making is greatly appreciated.
If you want to learn more about the region or our trip to Sikkim last summer, here is a link to the blog that we created with several short essays that we wrote during our five week stay in Sikkim: http://lettersfromsikkim.wordpress.com/
Organizer
Charlotte Cloyd
Organizer
Atlanta, GA