Laps for Kids

Hi! My name is Maria and I want to help kids like me in a place called Mekelle. Mekelle is in Ethiopia. I visited Mekelle in 2018 and got to meet a lot of nice kids at a place called Operation Rescue Ethiopia or ORE. The kids come to ORE to get help with school, so they can learn more and they get food as well. Some of them don’t have enough to eat at home. At ORE, the kids would play, study, sing songs, and eat with each other. Teachers would help them and my Aunty and Uncle and my three cousins- Daniel, Eli and Micah helped teach English there for a year.

The reason I want to help ORE in Mekelle is because there is a war happening there now. There is not enough food and stuff to help the kids. In School, I am doing a Changemaker project and we have been taught that no one is too young to make a change. This is how I would like to help others! I want to raise some money and then send it to
ORE. I  am going to work hard to do this.

Want to help me make a difference? Here is how 

1. I love swimming so on Saturday the 29th I’m going to try and swim 50 laps! I’ve never done it before, but I will do my best. I hope you will sign up to donate money based on how many laps I swim. IfI swim 50 laps, I have a secret donor who will match the amount of
money I raise -so the more you donate, the more we can make!

I hope you will help me with my passion project by donating to my swim challenge and by buying some fries! After I have raised my
money and sent it to ORE in Mekelle, I will write to everyone who has donated to let you know how much we made!