This year Awlaelo Shools Alumni Association has launched a new program called Sponsor a student. The sponsorship is to help needy students with school supplies such as note books, Pen/pencils, school registration fees, and similar other expenses that are important for the students academics.
This sponsorship does not cause financial burden on the individual who is sponsoring the student if it is done thoughtfully. The only thing it takes is good heart, love and care for others. If we save around six cents a day in cookie jar that will add up to $21.9 within a year which is an enough amount for the poor student for a year’s worth of school supplies.
When I have communicated this idea to some of my colleagues at work, I have received a tremendous response. In fact, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Echostar (DISH NETWORK) Communications employees such as Tom Towle, Tam Le, Lorinda, Christine, Pamela, Kori, and Laurie for their thoughtful support and donations to our alumni and for sponsoring seven students. I really appreciate their help to our needy bothers and sisters back home.
There are many human beings that would like to make a difference in the life of others. However, problems have to be told and the measures and programs that we put in place also have to be communicated effectively so that we can get support from every corner.
Therefore, for the coming year I call upon all of you to tell your children to save six cents a day in a cookie jar to sponsor one needy student. At the same time I urge you to communicate this program to your co-workers and seek support from them. Remember, if we all do a little we will do more. This sponsor a student program is not to replace the big project of building the library. The construction of the library is underway. We have planned to finished it within three years. When we plan about it and discussed the scenarios our capital I remember was almost slime to none. Today, thanks to the help of all Awlaelo Alumni members and other Ethiopians we have the two-third amount of the capital that is needed to complete the project. We hope that the construction will be completed within short period of time. Until then let us start collecting books, ask donors to grant us old but usable PCs, Microscopes for labs and other materials that can be used in the schools.
See you all next year in Denver in our 3rd reunion.
thanks Abraha
