As her project in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program, Victoria Tangata has created Date to Educate, a date auction being held February 9th in Seattle, to benefit the education of Kenyan children.
The event will take place from 7-11pm downtown at the Pink Ultra Lounge on 6th and Pine. Dates with ten men and ten women will be auctioned, with the package including a complete date experience such as a romantic dinner, a movie night, dancing or even rock climbing.
The event is intended to raise $10,000 for children’s scholarships and provoke awareness about what it will take for Kenyan children to get real opportunities.
Tickets cost $15 in advance, or $20 at the door. For more information visit the Date to Educate event page.
Per Holmgren leads Landmark Education’s Self Expression and Leadership Programme. In that programme, he created ‘Black Sea Futures’, an opportunity for people to contribute to the education of disadvantaged Turkish youths.
Specifically, Holmgren’s group seeks to raise money for poor students in Zonguldak, Turkey, to have access to higher education. In Turkey, according to Black Sea Futures, public education runs through age 15, at which point money is needed for extra schooling to pass tests for higher education. Black Sea Futures seeks £300 per student for tuition and books. For more information, visit the Black Sea Futures Website.
According to Oakland Local, a non-profit, independent, community news and information hub, a green day of environmental education is being held at Oakland’s Grass Valley Elementary School, out of the project created by Ilyse Opas in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program.
The reason for the day is environmental education, creation and inspiration, and features a variety of workshops, crafts and musical activities.
The day is being held Saturday, June 5th, starting at 9:30 in the morning with a compostable waffle breakfast, for which a $5 donation is suggested. At 10 there will be a ribbon cutting ceremony for the opening of the new school garden. The garden actually began in the fall with planter boxes provided by the school’s Dad’s Club – student grown vegetables from the planter boxes will be on sale at the Green Day.
According to Opas, the project was designed to “create community, empowerment and education centered around caring for our planet and for each other.”
To find out more, call Opas at 510-879-1220. Here is the Oakland Local story.
Pelican Post, the organization created by Nick Johnson as his project in Landmark Education’s SELP programme to increase literacy among children around the world, has again received media attention related to an SELP project.
The organization gathers books to be sent to schools in Africa. Previously, we covered King Dunsmore’s Big Book Swap which benefitted Pelican Post. The Amersham and Littlefont Examiner has now covered the SELP project of David Sommer, which also involved generating books for Pelican Post, this time through a local school:
Youngsters learned about a scheme to send books to children in Africa.
Parent David Sommer visited the Chestnut Lane Infant School in Amersham to speak to the pupils about the Pelican Post effort, which involves pledging to post children’s story books to Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda to inspire their peers in these countries to develop a love of reading.
He spoke to the children on March 3, the day before World Book Day activities got underway at the school and nationwide.
The Website Landmark Education News recently wrote about the SELP project of Nick Johnson, which involved the creation of Pelican Post, an organization that gathers books to be sent to a range of different schools in Africa.
Kim Dunsmore was inspired by that project and the self-expression and leadership programme to create her own project that is benefitting Pelican Post – she’s calling it The Big Book Swap. With co-organizer Kim Thomond, they are arranging a fun-filled night wherein person attending brings one or more books that hold importance to them, writing inside why they love the book, and then swapping it for some other favorite book that someone else brought.
In addition to the fun of book swapping, the event if featuring raffles, drinks and donations, all of which will go towards Pelican Post, thus funding great books as well for those in Africa who may not otherwise have access to them.
The event is taking place on June 1, 2010 at the Royal College of Physicians.
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As her project in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program, Victoria Tangata has created Date to Educate, a date auction being held February 9th in Seattle, to benefit the education of Kenyan children.
