Following the profitable launch of the Eileen Yee Instructional Fund final month, we’re celebrating Eileen’s delivery anniversary in September by kickstarting an annual occasion referred to as The Eileen Yee Instructional Fund Pink Week. From 23-27 September, we’ll organise a plethora of actions aimed toward highlighting the fund, whose proceeds have already began impacting deprived communities in Vietnam.
To construct on points like entry to training, which Eileen was so captivated with, we’ve got devoted this month to elevating consciousness about how highschool college students within the communities we help typically stroll as much as 4 km on daily basis simply to get to and from faculty. Aside from being an apparent security hazard, this deters many college students from attending faculty commonly and even results in a few of them dropping out altogether.
So, this month, the Discova workers are actually strolling within the footwear of those college students not simply to narrate to their each day expertise however to additionally rally help and elevate funds to vary lives. Titled Stroll 101, every staff member can be strolling 4 km each day to achieve 101 km on the finish of the month and lift cash via particular person fundraising pages that they share with their connections and on social media.
