Support Mateo's Educational Journey to Historic Sites

Hello

I am very excited to tell you that I have the opportunity to participate in sojourn to the past, which is a unique educational program that was honored at the white house by former First Lady Michelle Obama with the nation's highest honor for an after-school program in the arts and humanities, But I need your help. I would not ask this if it were not so important to me.

The Sojourn program take 8th grade students to the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. where we retrace the struggle for liberty. This journey is not a vacation. it is an academic seven-day experience where we will be traveling to various sites of historic events that shaped America's sites as well as interacting with history scholars. We will visit Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington, where we will study the Founder's vision for America. We will visit the Gettysburg Battlefield where we will learn about the complexities of the Civil War and the struggles that transpired there. In Washington, DC, we will visit various memorials of American heroes including Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Vietnam Veterans, and Martin Luther King Jr, I believe this will help me be a better student and a better person, One of the little Rock Nine, Minni jean Brown Trickey, may be coming on the whole trip. Minni jean was one of the first African-American students to desegregate schools in the American south.

The main reason I want to go on this journey is because I feel like this trip will help me in school and help understand more of the history of America.

The Tuition for the educational journey is $4,300. This covers my airfare, the moving classroom buses, meals and lodging, entrance to historical sites, books and curriculum, and security. But I cannot afford to pay the tuition myself. This is why I am asking for your help. NO donation is to small. you can learn more about Sojourn by visiting the website at: WWW.sojournproject.org

this will help my son mateo to go on this trip with his school thank you for taking your time to read this and for helping Mateo out

thank you so much