CCPS Advising

Pennies For Peace Campaign

Campaign Goal: $10,000

Campaign Total as of 04/08/2010: $2375.00

Team Penny Pushers: $537.00
Team 1 cent Wonders: $1788.00
General Donation: $50.00

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The students enrolled in the School of Public, Nonprofit, and Health Administration's PA390 Leadership Dynamics have joined hands with tens of thousands of other students around the world who share the vision and dedication to empower communities through education in remote areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. These students are embarking on a Pennies for Peace campaign to broaden their cultural horizons and become members of a global family dedicated to peace.

How can a penny bring peace? It doesn’t buy much in western Michigan. But in the villages of Pakistan and Afghanistan, it can buy a pencil, start an education, and transform a life. In a region where terrorist organizations recruit uneducated, illiterate children, that pencil can empower a child to read, write, and learn. The Pennies for Peace program goal is to encourage students, who are ultimately our future leaders, to learn the value of philanthropy by collecting pennies for global peace.

 

PA390 students will have an opportunity to learn to work and share together in their Pennies for Peace campaign and come to understand their own capacity as leaders – one penny at a time.

 

The pennies that GVSU students collect can add up to make a real difference.

1 penny = a pencil

2-3 pennies = an eraser

15 pennies = one notebook

$20 = one child’s school supplies for one year

$50 = one treadle sewing machine and supplies

$100 = maternal healthcare supplies for one year

$300 = one advanced student’s annual scholarship

$600 = one teacher’s annual salary

$5,000 = support for existing school for one year

$50,000 = one school building and support for up to five years

 

Children in over 400 mountain villages in remote northern Pakistan and Afghanistan are on the waiting list, hoping to learn in a new school. GVSU’s PA390 students hope to help build a bridge of peace, one penny at a time, offering alternatives to the cycle of terrorism and war.

 

About Pennies for Peace

The Pennies for Peace campaign is a program of Central Asia Institute (CAI), founded by Greg Mortenson, author of the #1 New York Times best seller, Three Cups of Tea. CAI is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that promotes and provides community-based education and literacy programs, especially for girls, in remote mountain regions of Central Asia. Founded in 1996, CAI has built, to date, nearly 100 schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan, which serve more than 28,000 students, 14,000 of whom are girls. Greg’s story and more information about CAI can be found on the web at www.ikat.org.

 

Contact Information

To find out more about GVSU – PA390 Leadership Dynamics Pennies for Peace campaign, or to donate via coin, cash, or check please contact: GVSUPenniesForPeace@gmail.com to locate a convenient drop-off location or mail your donation (checks only please) to CCPS Advising Center, Attn: Jennifer McCaul, 401 W. Fulton Street, 218C DeVos Center, Grand Rapids, MI 49504.