The work of Open World Cause was published in Jennifer Casa-Todd’s Book, “Social Leadia: Moving Students from Digital Citizenship to Digital Leadership” Learn more about the book here:

Two students used their iPads to start a fundraiser for Kenya.

“We’re collecting shoes to help save a school in Kenya. Once all the shoes are collected, they’ll be donated to a fundraising organization who pays us 40 cents per pound of shoes,” said sixth-grader Christina Strahan.

In just two weeks, Christiana and her classmate, Amelia Kulich, collected more than 500 pairs of shoes.

Open World’s first trip was in June 2015. We went to meet Govinda (director of the school) and see Tripur Kinder Academy first hand. After years of supporting the school, the team, donors, and the staff of Tri KA all looked forward to this trip and legitimizing our partnership and forming deeper connections.

The trip almost didn’t happen. Weeks before our trip, an earthquake hit Nepal that devastated the country. Though at first we weren’t sure if we should still travel, we found that the area of Narayanpur, where Tri KA was located, was mostly unaffected and we were able to continue as planned.

Abigail Schletzbaum of Lawrence graduated from Free State High School. She is the daughter of Paul and Stacy Schletzbaum of Lawrence. Schletzbaum’s involvement at KU includes Open World Cause and the Center for Community Outreach.

Hutchinson News: By Kathy Todd

There were about three hours of panic for a couple of Kansas college students Saturday morning as they anxiously awaited news from a friend in Nepal.

Fortunately for them, the power of the Internet came through.

On 10/31/13, Jane Waters, Co-Founder of the Open World Cause's high school initiative, sat down with Open World directors Ben Honeycutt and Connor Janzen on KJHK 90.7 FM to discuss the Open World Cause's current mission.

Bishop Elementary students have learned how fortunate they are to have a nice school library filled with hundreds of books. A one room school in rural Nepal has no library, no electricity and students only have rough, wooden desks. Seniors in Buhler High School near Hutchinson decided as a class project to raise money to build a library and stock it with books.

Buhler High School students are hoping their senior class Legacy Project can help build a new library and provide internet access to a school in Nepal.