One of the foci of Burki Gladstone's sophomore World History class is extreme poverty. My sophomore year that class inspired some students in my grade to take action in the form of fund-raising for anti-malarial bed nets. We hosted two bake sales during Monday tutorials and raised enough money to buy more than 50 bed nets.
This year, we want to do much more.
Plans are in place to host a bake sale every Monday during 10:30 tutorials starting September 21st. We know from experience that people are hungry during that time and food will sell quickly. Any leftovers can always be sold to hungry boarders during study hours. The only limiting factor I can see will be the amount of people willing to bring things to sell. If you are interested or know of anyone interested in making things to sell, please contact me at smiller@sasweb.org.
I think this should be a good way to start a push for more student-based humanitarian efforts. I hope we can keep it consistent throughout the year and that bigger and better things will grow out of it. If anyone has any ideas about this or other endeavors, I'd love to hear about them and get involved!
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