Books from the "Share the Love Textbook Drive" Have Arrived!

Fanuel (the school director) has advised us that the textbooks purchased in connection with our Valentine’s Day/Share the Love Textbook Drive have arrived!  As seen in the picture above, the schools were able to purchase many desperately needed textbooks for a variety of grade levels. 

The number of books we were able to donate through the drive was boosted by several special gifts from sponsors.  First, one of our sponsors offered to match donations of up to 25 math texts for each of Form 1 and 2.  As a result, we were able to donate 50 math texts for each of Form 1 and Form 2 (pictured below)!  Another sponsor rallied her work colleagues to make a group gift of 10 business studies texts for each of Forms 1-4, for a total of 40 texts (pictured below).  Finally, we wrapped up our drive by meeting an offer by a third sponsor to match up to $42 in text purchases for Form 1 or 2 students. 

Thank you to all of our supporters and sponsors who donated and helped to make our “Share the Love” Textbook Drive a resounding success!

New Math Textbooks Form 1 and Form 2

New Business Studies Textbooks

  ~Submitted by Brooke

Share the Love Valentine Textbook Drive

Just look at the smiling faces of our sponsored children on Valentine's Day as they received special friendship treats from their sponsors!  This was part of our February “Share the Love” Textbook Drive!  Our supporters answered our call and donated enough books to fully fund the offer of one of our sponsors to match up to 25 math texts for each of Form 1 and Form 2. In fact with the matching fund, Form 1 will receive 50 new math texts and Form 2 will receive 51 new math texts.  Our “Share the Love” Textbook drive continued with a second matching fund for any textbook purchased for Form 1 or Form 2 up to an additional $42.  That matching fund was also met for a total of another $82 for Form 1 and Form 2 texts or revision books (school's choice), in record time!  

In addition, we raised another $62 for the general textbook fund, PLUS several sponsors purchasing child-specific textbooks for grades 3 through form 4 in January and in February!  This is what we mean by PLANT-A-BOOK!  Thank you so much for participating!

Here are some more sweet faces of our sponsored students on Valentine's Day, courtesy of our visiting sponsor Katja.  Thanks for the fantastic photos, Katja!

 

 

 

Thank you for sharing the love and planting books!

“Share the Love” Valentine’s Day Textbook Drive!

 Let's have some Valentine's Day fun!

One of our primary goals for 2014 is to improve textbook ratios at Waddington High School and Galilee Primary School so that we can give our Nairobi Kids the tools they need to obtain a quality education.  By the beginning of 2014, the textbook ratio at WHS had fallen to approximately one textbook to every four students.  The ratio was better at GPS due to a large donation of textbooks in 2011, but students currently share at a ratio of approximately one textbook to every two students.

Many of our sponsors have answered our call for more textbooks by generously buying books for their own sponsored children and/or the classroom from our Online Shop.  However, Fanuel (the school director) reports that we still have some classes that are experiencing a serious shortage of texts  Specifically, Form 1 and Form 2 currently have the more dire need, as there are some classes for which there are very few texts.  In order to ensure that these students have the materials that they need to learn, we are holding a Valentine's Day Textbook Drive.

We are excited to announce that this year's Valentine's Day Drive will have two special features: 

1.  One of our sponsors has generously offered to match donations of up to 25 math texbtooks for each of Form 1 and Form 2!  With the match, this means that we have the opportunity to donate 100 math textbooks to WHS!  Math tends to be the most difficult subject for our WHS students, so increasing the number of math textbooks available will be a great help to the students.  Form 1 math texts are only $6.00 and Form 2 math texts are only $6.50.

2.    Each sponsor who purchases a textbook will have the opportunity to send their sponsored child(ren) a special treat for Valentine’s Day!  For an extra 50 cents per sponsored child, Fanuel (the school director) will make sure that your sponsored child receives a lollipop on Valentine’s Day and will convey the message “Happy Valentine’s Day from your sponsor.”  The children love lollipops and they will be thrilled to know that their sponsor was thinking of them on Valentine’s Day!

Details:

Donors may identify a specific subject, grade, and/or recipient for their textbook donations if they choose.  General donations to the textbook fund of any amount are also greatly appreciated, and will be used first to buy textbooks under the matching program described above, and second to buy textbooks in subjects where Fanuel identifies the greatest need.  We do request a minimum donation of $6.00 plus 50 cents per sponsored child in order to participate in the lollipop portion of the drive.  Please have all donations in by February 11, 2014 in order to give Fanuel adequate time to purchase the candy and coordinate the list of children to receive the special treats.

Donation Instructions:

To donate one or more textbooks, click the “Donate” button to the right of this post and specify “Textbook Drive” in the memo section.  If you would like your sponsored child(ren) to receive a lollipop on Valentine’s Day, please add 50 cents per child to the cost of the book(s).  Please also email Brenda (PAB director) at info@plantabook.org with your order details, including books purchased (or general donation to textbook fund), recipient (if specified), and sponsored children to receive a lollipop (include full name, ID number, and class level).

Thank you for your support!

Happy Valentine's Day!

~Submitted by Brooke

Books, Books and More Books!

In March we heard the wonderful news that DFID (UK Aid's Department for International Development) would be donating text books to all the schools that are members of our association. They will be providing textbooks for every student at GPS (Galilee Primary School).

This is a wonderful reflection on Fanuel's hard work with his schools' association and DFID.

Today we learned, the textbooks have arrived!!!!

Here are some of the photos for the textbooks Galilee has received from the DFID project. They were supplied today.  In the photos you can see Mr Gabriel confirming the quantity.

It's amazing to think that all of the GPS children have new sets of textbooks! Now we just need to concentrate on purchasing more books for the WHS students. To purchase WHS textbooks, please go to www.plantabook.org or click on the Donate button on the right tool bar of our blog here.