ADSactly Initiatives - Underprivileged Children Access Education - Monthly Fundraiser Post
ADSactly Initiatives - Underprivileged Children Access Education - Monthly Fundraiser Post
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Hello, everyone! We are pleased to share information about the first Steemit-funded charity school @SchoolForSDG4. This school is run by Mohammed Abdul Aziz @Azizbd in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Each month, the school publishes a post from Adsactly’s community blog to help raise funds for the 60 underprivileged children that attend the school.
What is the School For SDG4?
The school for SDG4 is a charity school, which was founded by Mohammed Abdul Aziz on 20 April 2016 to educate local, underprivileged children at Gashitula Sylhet, Bangladesh. These students would not otherwise have access to education, so this school is much-needed. This Steemit-funded school has been fundraising on Steem for about a year, and today it is fully-funded with help of Steemit blockchain technology.
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How is the Steemit Blockchain Helping Underprivileged Children Access Education?
Currently, the school welcomes 60 students each day. They meet in small huts with few resources, but it’s a start. The school is developing their educational equipment and the support the school is able to offer students has been growing. For instance, not only are we providing students with an education, but also the school arranges weekly fruits or snacks program for the slum children once in per week. We also decided to arrange a hot meal once in a month of the little ones at school. Why offer food with limited resources? These students have little means, and providing a healthy snack and a meal when we can helps them to be able to learn and focus. No one should go hungry!
Picture : 15 February, 2018 (Weekly Fruits program)
For more GIF of School's programs Click
Picture : 9 February, 2018 (First Monthly Hot meal program)
The children were able to eat until they were full! This brought us tremendous joy! Children rarely get such food at home. We feel so happy that many of the Steemians motivated us to arrange the hot meal program by sending donation to @SchoolForSDG4.
The lunch program was live on my Facebook profile. If you’d like to watch the video, please click on HERE. The next part of the program was recorded by my mobile and uploaded to school's youtube channel. It’s important to us to share what we do and communicate with our supporters as much as possible.
Lunch Program At School For SDG4
Every day is important for our children as education has the ability to change their future and it will positively impact the community. We can’t stop feeding students just because they had a meal yesterday. The needs are immediate and ongoing. We can't stop funding these children who are facing difficulties because of their financial circumstances. They will grow up and without education this cycle will continue. It would be heart breaking to see that happen as we have the ability to make change happen now. And we are so grateful for those of you that have joined in to help!
We have raised liquid 1500.30 USD last month with the help of our supporters donations by upvotes and directly sent funds. The liquid donations go directly goes to @Azizbd, to manage all expenses for the school. In an effort to maintain full disclosure, we share our monthly financial report with all the revenue and expenses we made using Steemit fundraising. More importantly, School For SDG4 was not founded by any professional charity organization and even had no plan to fundraise. It was just a private charity and volunteer work by @Azizbd. As the cost is raising and number of children increased, we saw the need to fund raise and the opportunities afforded by Steemit.
The @Adsactly community made our journey a little easier by connecting us with caring, helpful Steemians. We are slowly getting more visibility and revving generous donations including Adsactly donating 50% of the post rewards (up to 100 SBD ) to the @SchoolForSDG4. At the current market price of SBD, The 100 SBD almost covers one month expenses of the school. This is huge for us! We are planning to save any surplus funds for emergencies (and they definitely do arise) and to continue our future plans. We are powering part of donations we receive.
We are raising funds for a larger school building and for land.
Fahim and his friends were studying in class sitting on mats. They will not be in the same class next year. They want to study by sitting on class benches. But we can't set up benches in the classroom due to the lack of space. It is our hope to move to a new building if we are able to get enough support to do so.
It’s been amazing to watch the school and programs grow-- people on Steemit are not only donating steem/SBD, but also supporting the kids by sending gifts.
Picture: 7 February, 2018
@Girlbeforemirror sent lots of gifts from Australia, for children and women in Bangladesh. Though we have had many success stories, we couldn't solve many problems permanently.
Junayed With Mohammed Abdul Aziz ( @AzizBD )
Junayed is a student that had to stop attending school. We weren’t able to offer a permanent solution to their financial difficulties as the family faces extreme poverty, which is common here. We are growing as a school community, but do have limited resources. Junayed’s mother relied on the wages her child was able to earn—thus continuing this cycle that prevents children from attending school. They moved to another area without letting us know. We hope to be able to communicate with the family and find a solution.
In addition to providing an education and the snack and meal program, we arrange a monthly mother’s meeting at the school to discuss what needs the families have with the aim of keeping children in school.
Picture: 25 February, 2018 (Monthly Mothers meeting)
At the monthly mother’s meeting, we also create awareness about the importance of children’s education and many other social issues that we face here. The school's sister project @WomenEmpowerment is arranging training for mothers of the students. It helps us empower the underprivileged women, keep kids in school (because then they don’t need to earn any money for their family) and helps to tackle poverty.
@Azizbd was showing children class activities during meeting with mothers.
Sumon was receiving best drawing prize
Ahadul and Emon were receiving gifts, sent by @girlbforemirror.
@Geke is sending Cost Benefit Jr. as donation which is specially written for kids. She made a post for raising shipping cost few days ago.
If you have any questions at all, or if there is anything you are curious about, please ask @Azizbd as he is always eager to talk about his projects. We have a close discordapp group with 8 members including @lindahas @velimir @canadian-coconut @kenny-crane @pennsif @girlbeforemirror @tecnosgirl and @Azizbd . The group discusses monthly or/and convenience time of donors to make sure We also make plans to develop the school and it’s programs further.
You can make contact with @Azizbd in the @Adsactly community discordapp server as ADSactly Bangladesh Community Manager .
Please contact me @Azizbd for any information https://steemit.chat/direct/azizbd .
School For SDG4
A School For Social and Educational Development of Underprivileged Children
Authored by @Azizbd and proofreading by @lindahas and @jessicakluthe.
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Thank you!
I am proud to see that Steemit is being used to help children get free education. You are doing great work @adsactly. Education is a must, and there should be more free education in other poor countries as well.
Thank you very much @monajam for your comment and supporting the cause. hope you will find more info from @schoolForSDG4 blog posts.
Wonderful idea. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, I will
You have my full support. I'm glad to see posts like this where ordinary people can help children in other parts of the globe. UV-R!
My heart reaches out to those kids in need. I've never had an opportunity to teach kids other than Chinese but I wish I could get to know them too even via online teaching. If teaching kids is for you, you're going to miss it. There will come a point when you'd do it for free. I hope more people will come together and help them.
Let's hope so, We still have long way to go. Join our journey with @SchoolForSDG4 and I know together we can to better for the world. Have a great day.
love,,,,, my country all school
You know I have little time for Steemit nowadays but I'm glad we can support other children by upvoting. This platform is amazing! I considered online teaching too. I have seen how you teach @j-alhomestudio, but teaching just to earn extra money won't work for me. It's just not my cup of tea. I admire those people who set up free schools and teach for the love of it. Many teachers in the Philippines are like that. I'm sure they will vote for this post too if they joined Steemit.
Ask for help like my post for a while
Thank you @thevoysing for your nice comment. I loved your Rancho Verde video on Fb and happy to know your passion about music. I am glad to received the support for the kids.
good replay dear @j-alhomestudio
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I am happy to see helpful people like you. Would you support me not helping my students? you can look at my new account profile. you can ask if you have any information. I teach at a village school.
Thank you @j-alhomestudio from the bottom of my heart, for supporting my charitable school project. @SchoolForSDG4 is possible because of Steem and the generous support of the people on here. I am happy for your full support now and This is why I am sharing my kids voice here. Have a great day.
Great work! I'm sure that we need more free schools in many countries. In the Philippines, free tuition fee for college is now provided by the government. Other schools like LaVerdad Christian School provides free meals and books,etc. Let us all support these movements.
wow, thats a noble endeavor! hoping that this great work of charity be followed by our fellow steemians esp to those merciful hearted whales :)
hi dear @elizahfhaye
how are you?
awesome article Dear @hiroyamagishi
https://steemit.com/charity/@komail/help-other-charity-give
OPen this
Thank you for taking the time to comment and vote on this post. This greatly helps the 60 students that attend the @SchoolForSDG4 in Bangladesh and makes a difference in our whole community.
I love the way you look at the things. Raising a regular amount of money is obviously important to many just to keep going in this school. Fundraisers like you not only helps to bring in much needed cash but can also raise the profile of you and other steemiens on steemit in a amazing way. Many ideas are tried and tested but the really great fundraisers come about when people try to think outside the box a little bit. You are the living proof, just look at the comments every time you release your post regarding fundraising. A good way to start is by looking at your surrounding, at poor people needs, at homeless animal needs. Even wild and wacky ideas can work if you can get enough people behind them. If you anyone is passionate about your cause it will shine through in all your fundraising activities! I wish you @adsactly and @azizbd the best and I’m praying for all over the world homeless and poor children.
very effective article dear @milano1113
Thank you for supporting @SchoolForSDG4 and the 60 students and their families that we support. It means so much!
The 60 students of @SchoolForSDG4, myself, and the teachers of the school are so grateful for the support. Thank you for taking time to vote and comment. I joined on steemit more than a year ago and I was only sharing it as my social work and I realised that I should make separate fundraising account. now my @Azizbd get nice support for myself and @schoolforsdg4 receive support for school.
Please do not upvote this reply as I would rather you save the Cost for another post like this.
I must start with saying that I am absolutely floored by the initiative taken on by @azizbd for starting and running this school. As a teacher I completely understand the desire not only to provide an educatio, which every single child is entitled to, but for making sure that these kids are not only educated but fed and mlooked after. Being from Canada we don’t see the level of poverty that is experienced in many places around the world but we do have poverty. I have worked in schools were the kids in your class are just so happy to be at school because it a a safe place to be for 7 hours and they don’t have to worry about the stresses that are their real life. I have had 6 year old kids in grade 1 come to school with no lunch and have no idea how they were getting home at the end of the day.
The lunch program at our school during my practice teaching always impressed me. We were providing a meal for kids that otherwise would have gone the entire day and possibly the night without eating. Sometimes people in the education community get caught up in the day to day comics and goings of delivering the curriculum. My first few years as a teacher showed me that there is a whole lot more to my job then the government mandated curriculum.
Don’t get me wrong, the curriculum is very important and eagerly child in entitled to an education. They are also entitled to a healthy life where they are looked after by caring parents and have access to a full meal every day. How can we possibly educate kids who are malnutrited and suffering from mistreatment of even depression. We must first create an environment where these children feel safe and secure and then education can happen. Thank you for this post @adsactly and even more so thank you for getting involved in such a great initiative!!!
We have % allocated for serious comments! And yours is defintely one!
Dear @broncofan99
good article
Your comment gave me confidence and more mental support. I am very happy to learn about how kids get support from school in Canada. It also helping me to develop my school facilities. I arrange weekly fruits program for kids and Monthly hot meal arrangement for these 60 slum children . We will keep developing the project when we have continuous sustainable income. Hope one day we will able to give them food every day and also full day education. For now, we arrange class for 2 hours ( elementary and class one, two) and 3 hours for class three.
For any kind of information, please contact me. your knowledge and experience can be a great donation for the kids educational development. And you might know how you can support them better.
Each school fundraisers differently, it must be extremely harder in area's where there are so many people struggling, many schools do actions or sell stuff the kids have made for your school with limited funds showing the kids art work, one post per child with them explaining the process, this is where you could ask the mothers to come and help so all you need to do is type and get the kids to take pictures so it's a learning process for them also.
Something that is very labor intensive but would that help with bringing gifts to benefit the kids to have an extra snack or hot meal, it would be well worth it.
or asking businesses for donations for art supplies or tshirts were the kids could design stuff to show thru the steemit blog (where you would offer them free advertisement in the blog posts where their donation gifts are shown.) but also to sell that could cover their education and meals for the longer term.
It's great to follow the progress that is happening with the kids.
On thing @Azizbd is doing is getting training for the mothers of his 60 students so that they can sell their handiwork (embroidery...etc.). This allows the family to bring in some income and make sure the students are able to attend school (instead of spend the day working for what amount to about $2 per day).
awesome reply
please come on my blog
dear /@biglipsmama
Underprivileged Children can seek for the education but there are many more problems faced like from the very birth we know Cognitive capacity is not just a matter of genetics, but can be strongly influenced by external factors like prenatal drug use, environmental toxins, poor nutrition, and exposure to stress and violence. All of these are more prevalent in low-income households, and affect cognitive development from the prenatal stage through adulthood.
Parents with higher education and income are more likely to engage children with questions and dialogue that invite creative responses, while parents in poverty often lack the time and energy for anything more than simple and goal-oriented command.
Children growing up in poverty often experience life as a series of volatile situations over which neither they nor their caregivers have any control. Thus they fail to develop a conception of themselves as free individuals capable of making choices and acting on them to shape their lives, instead reacting to crises that are only magnified by their poor ability to plan ahead or reflect. This doesn’t just affect educational success – studies have shown that a low sense of control over one’s life has major health impacts in all areas, regardless of finances or access to health .
Executive function skills such as impulse control, emotional regulation, attention management, prioritization of tasks, and working memory draw on a limited supply of mental energy. But the day-to-day insecurities of life in poverty interfere with these functions by releasing stress hormones that direct energy away from them towards more basic survival mechanisms. Regular exposure to these stresses in childhood can inhibit early development of the neural connections that enable executive function, leaving children with both academic and behavioral problem The availability of well-paid unskilled jobs created a virtual cycle that allowed families to enter the middle class within a generation as uneducated factory workers raised stable families and sent their children to college. But in today’s knowledge-based economy, moving out of poverty is far more complex. With more competition for unskilled work and a minimum wage that has not kept up with inflation, attaining economic independence requires more education, planning, and interpersonal skills – precisely the areas in which low-income individuals are disadvantaged to begin with.
thank you dear @obaidb2
just for your article
Thank you for very informative response. @obaidb2 we really appreciate it .
Nice work
I support your charity school
Dear @slowwalker
good comments
please come on my blog
Thank you very much @slowwalker for your comment. I appreciate all the support you have done for @SchoolForSDG4 and for me @Azizbd . May be I can't reach all of you but I remember all your generous support. I am also running another project to support mother of the children since 7 January, 2017 . The project helps underprivileged women to get handicraft training at @WomenEmpowerment and empower themselves. I lately started blogging about the women empowerment project on steemit . Both projects also helping me to gain personal support for @Azizbd too. And This is how I am living on steemit :)
I'm not the first time reading about your work and I see that you are making some progress. I fully support the words of Nelson Mandela. Only through education can we change the world. Therefore, giving children from disadvantaged families an education we can change their lives.
Education is the chance for every person to influence their own destiny and their further life. I believe that every person on earth has the right to receive a quality image. Education must be accessible to everyone, regardless of living conditions or social status.
Thanks to education, we can give the world not only progressive young people, but we can influence the fate of these people.
Having received a quality education, a person can change his destiny himself. But unfortunately not everyone benefits that people would be intelligent and educated. There is a category of ruling elite for which it is vital to have a poor class that is undergoing manipulation.
Thanks to such enterprising people, the world is getting a little better and smarter.
Thank you
I am happy that you know about the project before and also I remember your support before. Thank you for taking the time to comment and vote on this post. This greatly helps the 60 students that attend the @SchoolForSDG4 in Bangladesh and makes a difference in our whole community.