Five Minutes and Ten Bucks Can Leverage Yahoo Matching Dollars and Send Over Thousand Poor Cambodian Youngsters to School!

Many children in Cambodia do not go to school because their families lack the $10 for a uniform, required for school attendance, and other school supplies.  Last year, The Sharing Foundation sewing school made over 1000 uniform sets and donated them to needy children in Roteang Village, to the Street Children's Assistance NGO, and to a poor government orphanage.  The sewing girls, who are employed by the Sharing Foundation's vocational training program, earn from the first day of their training, so this is a win-win situation. 

This year we could more than double the number of uniforms we provide to children in Cambodia, including some for HIV children's group homes.  The Sharing Foundation has the opportunity to receive matching dollars from Yahoo via the Network For Good Charity Badge program. This could make a big difference for thousands of children in Cambodia.  We need just a few minutes of your time and a few dollars.

Here's how it works: Yahoo! is offering a $50,000 matching grant for the nonprofit which gets the largest number of donations before the end of the year using its new "charity badges."  (see below)  What is important is the number of donors, not the amount of dollars.    

A large number of people contributing just the minimum of $10 each would make all the difference in the world.  (We also would be happy to receive larger contributions to help more children lift themselves out of poverty through education and the Sharing Foundation's other programs.)

Can you think of a better use of $10 or more? Send poor Cambodian to school, provide employment for young women in Cambodia, and help the Sharing Foundation raise additional dollars to help address poverty in Cambodia.  Simply click on the orange donate button on the charity badge located in the side bar or right below. If our campaign has the most individual donors, Yahoo will match what we raise.  So, why not help us today!

Comments

[Wanna]

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[Jonathan Vander Meer]

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[Thai Radio]

That's a good initiative!

[Matthew Fitzgerald]

I'm an English teacher in China in in Cambodia right now for a holiday, and the poverty and the working children here break my heart. I met one girl this afternoon at the myriad huts that offer lunch, snacks, and keepsakes. She was 15, hey name was Aiya, and although she never studied English in class, she spoke excellently. I asked some questions and she told me it was about $150 a year for a student's tuition ... I want to help this girl and all the other Cambodian children I met today that have to sell postcards and pineapples instead of learning. Any advice?