Min has been able to secure assistance for the construction of a new toilet at the school. He approached a local NGO and made an agreement with them for a 60/30/10 percent financial contribution-NGO (60), ECC (30) and local community (10). Min estimates that around $500 USD will be needed for ECC to meet the contribution they agreed to. I am expecting an itemized budget for that project from Min soon.

Min has talked with the local VDC (I believe Village Development Committee) about the need for water at the school. They have agreed to contribute $100 USD toward the project. We also have a donor willing to donate around $700 USD toward the project budget. This leaves only around $300 left to raise to complete the project according to Min's original budget estimates. He's been very busy meeting with local NGO's and other International Aid organizations and doing a great job gaining local support.

Thought you would all want to know the good news :)

Jennifer

Hi everyone-

Ruel and I have been emailing over the last couple of days about the project and hope to have some additional tasks posted in the next day or so.

A couple of other suggestions:

1. Volunteers can post a link to the fundraising page by adding it in the signature of their emails.
2. Volunteers can also consider posting a link to the project in the status update section of their instant messenger, Facebook account, etc. Everywhere people see it, even for a little bit, will help get the word out about the project.

Best wishes!

Jennifer

Barb-

I came across this one tonight too and it also looks like a good one. At first I thought that it was only for projects here in the US, but looking through the Fall grantees there are a few grantees for projects based in developing countries as well.

http://www.openmeadows.org/

Application guidelines are located here:

http://www.openmeadows.org/apply.htm

I did note that proposals cannot be accepted via email-they need a paper copy.

Jennifer

Hi all-I have really been pushing the last few days to get this last $146 raised by year-end. With 2-more days to go, I was wondering if you all might be able to contribute a story, possibly something about one of the women who worked on the hats for the children in Gamauli, the impact the knitting business has had on her life...maybe a story of how the women felt when they saw the picture of the children at the school with the hats they made??

We received a large donation this morning to our fundraising project and are now $146 from reaching our goal of $800.

You can help, by posting information about our project to things like your Facebook page, emailing friends, sending out a Tweet via Twitter with a link to our project, etc.

http://www.givemeaning.com/project/gamauli

Please continue to help us spread the word about our project.

Here's a little story on Social Actions that I posted about it as well :)

http://blog.socialactions.com/profiles/blogs/through-the-eyes-of-a-child