Usually each fall we gather with you -- our great supporters -- to celebrate the successes you made possible and kick off a new school year. This year we can't gather physically, but we still want to celebrate with you! Join us Sunday, November 14 for an online, free gathering celebrating the end of our Gift of Education Giving Challenge.
Rescheduled: Fun Discussion of Girls' Education
Online Book Discussion: The Moment of Lift
We want to talk with YOU about big ideas for changing the world. Some of our supporters were really inspired by Melinda Gates' book, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World. We decided it would be fun to have a book group-like discussion and connect some of the themes from the book with Mali Rising's work and your support. Please join us!
Become a Mali Rising Volunteer Today!
I don’t know about you, but more and more these days I’m looking for ways to be of service and feel connected to the larger world. With more time at home and alone, maybe it has made me value our interconnectedness a bit more….or maybe after a year at home I just need something DIFFERENT to do with my evenings! Do you feel that way?
Do You Miss International Travel? Boy, I Do.
In preparation for our May 13 Get to Know Mali Volunteer Evening, I’ve been digging around into information about Mali that might be of interest to those of us in North America or Europe. As a side-effect of that research, I’m positively itching to be able to travel again and missing the sights, sounds, and smells of Mali! I figured some of you might be laboring under the same problem so thought I would share a snippet here about 5 places in Mali I wish I was exploring today:
Help! Virtual Volunteers Needed for 2 Special Projects
By Merritt Frey, Executive Director
Well, the good news is that we have been totally overwhelmed with responses to our new Volunteer Campaigns. The bad news? We need some help to manage the influx!
We are looking for two people willing to tackle some support help for our Read to Mali and Notes of Encouragement Campaigns. Each role can be done from anywhere in the U.S. as long as you have a good internet connection and will average about 1 to 3 hours a week.
For the Read to Mali support volunteer, we will ask that you review short (5 to 15 minute) videos from our volunteers to make sure they are kid-friendly and of good quality. You do not have to judge the volunteers’ work — we just need someone to check each video to make sure nothing untoward goes on and that the audio/video quality will work in our classrooms (you do not have to be a video tech — we are just wanting to be sure one can hear the volunteer, etc.). Specs and support will be provided.
For the Notes of Encouragement Campaign, the support volunteer will review notes submitted by volunteers — again making sure that there is nothing untoward in the notes (sometimes young volunteers might think it is funny to add an “exciting” word or two) and that no contact information is shared. The notes will all be scanned into pdf files, so they will be easy to review. Again, specs and support will be provided.
We are hoping whoever steps forward can take on their role for at least a two or three months staring in mid-April. Interested? Email me today please! And thank you…
Get Involved to Help Our Students (Online) This Thursday!
Want to help our students? Why, thank you! We have a fun, easy way you can volunteer to help our kids by sending them encouragement during this tough year. On April 8, you can come learn how to do it at our online April Volunteer Evening. At this online event, we will get you started with our Notes of Encouragement Volunteer Campaign. Notes are just short messages to encourage our students as they work hard in school.
