When I visited Switzerland in late September this year, many of you greatly supported the work of Teach a Child - Africa by donating equipment, such as scanners, a laptop, flash drives and mostly: mobile phones. I agreed with the donors to sell whatever is not needed for the work of TaC. After bringing most of the equipment to the field during the second mission in October, I was left with five quality mobile phones. But how would an obvious foreigner sell them on the local market? I didn't know the answer to that question until I started my 4 weeks training in Monitoring and Evaluation at AMREF. During the last week of the training I asked the most vivid class mate to assist me in selling the phones among the group. What a marketer! In only a few hours he sold all the phones and one flash drive for 19'000 Kenya Shillings! This is the equivalent of 150£ or 240$! Last Saturday I went to town in order to buy revision books for our students. With the help of our project-coordinator who happened to be in Nairobi, we purchased revision books for all the form 3 and form 4 students! With the money left, William and I bought three scientific calculators to award our best performing students during the annual mentorship workshop which will take place from the 15th to the 17th of December.
We are still fundraising for more books and more calculators. Kindly visit the current fundraising event on betterplace.org:
http://emailinvited.betterplace.org/groups/simone-haeberlis-spendenaktion
Giving revision books to our students will make them so happy! By now I interviewed most of them and there was not a single student who did not ask for books. Would any of us deny water to someone who is thirsty?
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