A Better World and Grade 4 students from École Lacombe Upper Elementary (ÉLUES) are collaborating on the 12th annual Hope Project.
The funds raised from this year’s project will go towards school uniforms for students at the Lamu Special School in Lamu, Kenya.
“In countries like Kenya, people with disabilities usually don’t have a way of making money,” said A Better World co-founder Eric Rajah. “Parents who have disabled children are often poor themselves, so those kids are often put to the side and neglected.”
Children in Kenya who are unable to purchase new clothes are in many cases unable to attend school. This years Hope Project intends to buy uniforms for the whole school in order for every student to feel equal.
“These kids will then be able to come school, be happy, and feel special,” said Rajah, adding that being disabled doesn’t mean one has lost the ability to do something. “We believe in those children, that they have the potential to do better than they are doing now.”
ÉLUES has raised funds for many projects since 2006 including building desks, planting gardens, buying new books and providing clean drinking water.
“It’s exciting to be making uniforms for the children who wouldn’t have them otherwise,” said Nicole Rawlinson, vice principle at ÉLUES. “We’re giving people a chance to succeed in life and we’re really lucky we get to be in a position to do that.”
Students will raise funds through $2 raffle tickets, which are being sold until April 30th, 2018. The raffle tickets will go into a draw to win local art pieces by local artisans.
-Submitted by A Better World