akitapow 1 Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Hey Snow Japan community! Hope you all can help me spread the word on a project we have started to help raise funds to send a Sendai orphan to university. We have met with Masaya (the young man) and the orphanage director several times, and I must say Masaya is a GREAT kid and has so much potential. If you can please take a look at our Scholarship proposal below and PLEASE pass it along to anyone who may be able to help us! We could definitely use all the help we can get Much love, Paul (akitapow) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi my name is Paul Yoo, Co-founder of volunteerAKITA and The Fruit Tree Project (www.volunteerakita.org). Along with our on-going activities, we are also involved in the “Smiles & Dreams:Tohoku Kids Project” led by Living Dreams/SmileKidsJapan. Right now, we are working as Home Communication Managers (HCMs) to two orphanages in the Sendai area. Our role is to act as contacts for the orphanages, and relay any needs they may have. What we need right now: A boy, in his 3rd year of high school (his final year), at one of the orphanages we are in contact with, has become the first orphan there to ever express interest in going to college. He wants to attend Yamaguchi Hukushi Bunka Daigaku (University of Human Welfare and Culture) and study hoiku ka (child care). It is a four year program and the university will cover tuition for the first 2 years of the program, along with 50% of the 3rd and 4th years. Our goal is to raise￥1,154,000 which includes ￥970,000 in tuition costs for the 3rd and 4th years, along with an ￥184,000 mandatory insurance cost over 4 years. We are currently accepting donations for the scholarship fund we have set up. After collecting the sufficient funds, we will then transfer the money to an account that will be handled by the orphanage. We welcome any grants, scholarships, or personal donations to get this young man to college, and most importantly doing it without leaving him in debt after he finishes school, since in most cases, once an orphan has finished high school, he is on his own. It is truly inspiring that he plans to go to college and is the first from his orphanage to show interest in doing so. Successfully sending him to college would be such an amazing gift, and would inspire other orphans to follow in his footsteps, knowing that they too can receive a college education, and strive to become whatever they want to be in the future. If you have any questions regarding this proposal or can help us out, please contact me. Much Love, Paul Yoo and Minami Ishikawa Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Good luck Paul. I hope my small contribution combines with others to bring the desired result. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
akitapow 1 Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 CHEERS MAMABEAR! and ALL donations are equally appreciated thanks again! And also a BIG THANKS to SNOWJAPAN for their support and letting this post slide. Much appreciated. Link to post Share on other sites
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