EF’s co-director, Scott, is heading back over to Zimbabwe for three weeks to empower our partners with the storytelling tools of Flip cameras and laptops. Follow his video blogs here on the website, on Twitter, or on our Facebook Page.
Many thanks to Christina, Mark, Jake, Ellen and Darcie for the laptop donations! We are incredibly excited to empower our partners with the capabilities of mobile technology and allow them to share their stories and voices more freely. A shout-out is owed to Flip Video as well for the camera’s Scott will be distributing to our partners.
In 2006 a group of teenagers gathered together to sing and jam their hearts out in Arlington, MA to raise money for EF’s first college scholarship recipient, Justice. These young men and women, all members of the Needham, MA based nonprofit group Plugged In, raised over $3,000 and enabled us to provide for Justice’s university education. Justice has now earned his BA and is considering further education in a Master’s program. His educational success would not have been possible without that initial support from Plugged In. In retrospect, EF had only just begun to work in Zimbabwe at the time of the event and to receive such overwhelming support was, and continues to be, incredibly inspiring to all of us here at the Fund.
Now, four years later we are humbled and honored to announce that once again we will be the recipient of proceeds raised through Plugged In’s bi-annual concert. The second Plugged In sponsored “I am Strong if You are Strong” benefit concert will be held Friday, January 15 and Sunday, January 17th at the Village Club in Needham, MA. All proceeds from the concerts will go towards building the infrastructure of the micro-agriculture project in Chiredzi. For two amazing evenings teenagers from the Boston suburbs will raise their voices and rock their instruments to benefit EF. If you are anywhere in or around the Boston area on Friday and Sunday, please come down and check out the concerts! For further details on the event, visit the Plugged In website here.
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