Ichabod Crane Central School District

Pennies For Peace

The High School students raised $330.33 for the Pennies for Peace project which was coordinated by the fourth grade classes of Ms. Michele Carey and Ms. Stephanie Bell.

The students collected pennies to help fund the projects in the remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The peer mediators helped by collecting in the High School and Trooper Gallo brought the money to the students at Martin H Glynn and /Martin Van Buren to counted.

 

Interesting facts about Pennies For Peace:

Greg Mortgenson, the humanitarian who began all this, believes in the African proverb:
                                  If you teach a boy, you educate an individual
                                  If you teach a girl, you educate a community
Studies show that educated girls marry later, have fewer children and tend to stay or return to their community with what they have learned.
In the Himalayas, an educated girl is worth 50 rams compared to an uneducated girl being valued at 5 rams.
In some villages the community leader is unable to read the Koran.
Schools are built in the most remote villages in hopes that the government will bridge the gap between the poorest and not so poor.
Students in these villages, want to learn so desperately they go to school on the cold ground, mostly rocks and use sticks to scratch in the dirt to learn math and writing.   They go to “school”  though there is rarely a teacher present.
       $.01        A pencil
          $1        A teacher’s salary for an entire day
        $20        Educates a 1st grade student for one year
      $340        Provides a high school scholarship for one girl for four years
$50,000        Builds an 8-room schoolhouse with teachers’ salaries for 5 years


                                       We are all about PEACE.


 

 

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