We are three students from Woodland Park School District, and we had a dream to bring a library to the Twinsbright school in Kenya. We have made some awesome 3d prints and are selling other cool items to help raise money for this project..
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We would love to give a shoutout to the student leaders of Crossing World Barriers. Their efforts to start a school playground and garden in 2019 got redirected due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but were instrumental to OWC’s 2020-2021 efforts to provide a new classroom in Narayanpur..
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OWC is honored to unveil our comprehensive reports covering our 2019-2020 work in Nepal. These reports, formatted under the direction of Professor Melissa Collum, give an analysis of our projects with the Tri Ka school and the Narayanpur Community. Included in the reports is a detailed history of our work with Govinda and Sudha Panthy’s schools….
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We would like to thank Shawn Gormley Films for putting together this incredible video celebrating our 10th year anniversary at Open World Cause!
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We are so proud to introduce Open World Cause’s Consultant for Women’s Health & Educational Initiatives, Sarita Timalsina. In September 2019, Sarita attended the International Youth Day 2019: Engaging Youth to Advance Sustainable Cities and Communities at the United Nations headquarters in…
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Today is a big day. As many of you know, our organization survives purely on the goodwill and volunteer hours of our members, consultants, and global network of activists. For much of this year, we were considering new funding outreach and how to engage with our community in new ways.
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Assembled by Open World Cause Financial Consultant Abigail Schletzbaum, this financial report details all of our donations and expenditures in 2018, as well as our plans for the 2019 year.
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During OWC’s 2019 visit to Nepal, OWC members Ben, John and Natalie created 12 video diaries where they introduce the educators at Tri Ka and talk about OWC’s hopes to create a partnership that serves the long-term future of the Narayanpur community.
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Tripur Kinder Academy (Tri Ka) is in the Dang region and the Narayanpur community. It has 95 children, which is a 66 student increase from our last visit in 2015. There are 5 classrooms and the children here are primary age or younger. Classes from youngest to oldest go like this: Nursery (preschool), play group, lower kindergarten, upper kindergarten, and…
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Days for Girls is an organization that provides opportunities for groups to sew and assemble reusable feminine hygiene kits. They also provide education and training on topics such as feminine hygiene, menstrual cycles, sexual intercourse, self defense, and human trafficking.
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What have we been up to?
Haley- Haley is our nurse and as been doing check ups with students. She pulls students from their classrooms and checks eyes, ears, mouth, teeth, blood pressure, height, weight, lungs, skin, and strength. Only 2 out of….
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The Open World team is gearing up for our second trip to Nepal (arriving July 2) since our first 2015 visit four years ago. In that time, we’ve broadened our goals and have lost and gained new allies. TriKa, our flagship school --and the reason for our upcoming visit-- has grown from 26 students to more than 90 students (about a 220 percent increase) since the last time we went.
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It comes with great pride to announce that we have submitted our final donation to the HIPAfrica school in Kimilili, Kenya. We are so proud to look back at what our partnership has accomplished since it began in 2015….
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This January, Open World had the opportunity to send a volunteer to one the schools we support, HIP Academy, in Kimilili, Kenya (on the border of Uganda and Kenya). Jeremy Gulley served as an adviser and supported the students and teachers in the classroom for an entire month, and plans to return for a three month stay this summer. Read on to learn more about Jeremy’s experience at HIP.
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Last spring, Iro Stefopoulou of Skype in the classroom and Microsoft In Education sat down with Benjamin Honeycutt of the Open World Cause. In December 2019, they published an article from that interview that details the work the Open World Cause and schools around the world did to help save HIPAfrica.
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In this video playlist, Amelia and Christina of the Kenya Help project explain how their middle school project became a worldwide, global partnership with Microsoft and 50 classrooms to help save the HIPAfrica school in Kenya!
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In June of 2015, we had a Skype call with Livingstone Kegode, the director of HIPAfrica, and were so impressed with his work that we were committed from the moment the call was over. A little over a year later, Livingstone informed us that the country of Kenya had changed its zoning standards for schools, and unless HIPAfrica could raise over $14,000 for three….
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It is difficult to describe how ridiculously happy we are for Livingstone Kegode, Fredrick Manzugu, and the children of Kimilili as we see the three beautiful new classrooms of the HIP Academy. In October 2016, we heard that if we couldn’t raise over $16,000, up to 60 students would no longer be able to attend school in Kimilili, Kenya.
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The Open World Cause is proud to unveil our 2017 Financial Summary. In November 2016, we made a goal to donate $6,000 and be the tax deductible handler for a $14,000 campaign to save the HIPAfrica school in Kenya. In addition, we pledged to donate $6,000 to the TriKa School in Nepal….
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We're very happy to share with you our very first newsletter to help detail all that has occurred with our organization in the past few months! This was an idea conjured during a video call by Devin Canfield and Abby Schletzbaum, serving as directors of our organization…
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