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Poetry Anthology Sponsors Girls Like Sophia, Karen, & Kalkidan

By purchasing the If the World Were My Classroom anthology, you make a $15 direct donation to sponsor girls! Order your copy here.

Sophia Paulo

Meet Sophia Paolo, a 17 year old in AfricAid’s Kisa Project and one of the girls you’ll help sponsor when you purchase the If the World Were My Classroom anthology. She is one of the first girls from her village to get both a primary and secondary education and wants to be a politician so she can empower other girls and women in Tanzania. Sophia loves that the Kisa Project has given her the chance to learn more about women and improve her public speaking.

Karen

 

 

Karen, a 16 year old from Guatemala, is dreaming of going to college to be a forensic doctor. She lives with her mom and her two sisters in Santiago. Karen is excelling in English in our partner program, Starfish One by One, is extremely outgoing and also loves playing basketball!

 

 

Kalkidan

Kalkidan Girma is a 10 year old in the 3rd grade at the Selamta Family Project in Ethiopia. Her name means “promise” in Amharic. Kalkidan came to Selamta when she was four years old. Now she is thriving with an excellent report card, and finished third in her second grade class last year. She already knows she wants to be a teacher when she grows up!

 

 

 

Proceeds from our anthology will benefit the education of girls like these who are from Tanzania, India, Uganda, Kenya, Guatemala, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Nepal. These girls who wouldn’t be able to afford school otherwise will now have an opportunity to be the First!

Happy Poetry Month everyone!

Want to play your part in helping make sure girls across the world have the change to go to school and learn how to make sweet poetry out of their own lives? Order the anthology today.

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Be a Penpal with Kalkidan in Ethiopia!

Meet Kalkidan Girma, a 10-year-old girl in Ethiopia’s Selamta Family Project going into the third grade. She is currently being sponsored by Eliza, an amazing 8-year-old girl who donated her birthday money to girls’ education, and sent us a check in a envelope decorated with butterfly stickers!

Kalkidan finished third in her second grade class last year! We’re so excited to welcome her to the She’s the First family. She even knows already that she wants to be a teacher when she grows up!

Kalkidan came to Selamta four years ago with her brother Yohannes and sister Tigist after her father died. At Selamta she lives at the Minilik House with her eight Selamta siblings.

Kalkidan means “promise” in Amharic and with this sponsorship, She’s the First has promised Kalkidan an education. We’d love to hear some encouragement you have for Kalki as she starts third grade and then we’ll send all your comments back to her!

What was your favorite part of third grade? Do you remember a particular project or topic of study that inspired you? And take a look at her amazing report card. This girl is really going places!

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Kalkidan Girma

 

Meet Kalkidan Girma, a 10-year-old girl in Ethiopia’s Selamta Family Project going into the third grade. Kalkidan finished third in her second grade class last year, and already knows that she wants to be a teacher when she grows up!

Kalkidan came to Selamta when she was 5 years old with her brother Yohannes and sister Tigist after her father died. At Selamta she lives at the Minilik House with her eight Selamta siblings. Her name means “promise” in Amharic.

Kalkidan was sponsored in 2011 by Eliza, an 8-year-old girl who donated her birthday money to girls’ education, and is currently being sponsored in 2012 by Suffield Academy.

Kalkidan (on the right!) at a dinner with her friends to celebrate her academic acheivements.

Kalkidan when she came to Selamta at age 5

 

If you want to leave Kalkidan a message, you can comment below. We’ll collect them and send them to her, and update here when she writes back. (Note: this can take up to six months due to infrastructure issues in Ethiopia.)

 

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