10,000 Girls
Kaolack, Senegal is a few miles east of Dakar. There is a great fledgling school there that I support. The plan of the school is to offer educational opportunity to 10,000 Senegalese village girls and to build self-sustaining educational and business organizations run by the girls themselves. They already have a good start on the planTheir website can show you how 10,000 Girls is different. It was began by Viola Vaughn in 2001. Viola is a transplanted American grandmother and someone who knows how to build solid foundations.For dozens of reasons that you can imagine village girls drop out of schools in Senegal. 10,000 Girls provides the essentials to overcome this: a place to study, time to study, books and materials, and a reason to study with an interdependent entrepreneurship program and projects run by the girls themselves.I will write again of this project and include pictures. But see their excellent website now.Eliza
Camp Hale, New Hampshire
Here I am doing a Q&A on the Camp Hale Alumni Association website talking about what the Camp means to me. I really appreciate the publicity that fans have given to Camp Hale.I am very happy to be able to bring attention to this fine place and good cause and to the work of the United South End Settlement, a product of the famous “sixties” in Boston. I remember, as a kid, singing at a fund-raising program at USES’s Harriet Tubman House named for an escaped slave and one of the workers on the Underground Railroad. My Aunt Patricia and my mother taught me the “Harriet Tubman” song and, at about four foot two, I belted it out:
Come on up, mm mm mm, I got a lifelineCome on up to this train of mineCome on up, mm mm mm, I got a lifelineCome on up to this train of mine.She said her name was Harriet TubmanAnd she drove for the underground railroad.