New Summer Fundraising Initiative
As the 2007-08 school year comes to an end, Rea has put in a special proposal to the Sawatzky Family Foundation for the next school year. This project would bring Math, Science, Language, and History textbooks to the older students for the very first time in SOPUDEP's six year history. With the addition of proper textbooks from which the children can study, it will save on the long-term supply costs for the school as the books can be reused throughout the years. At this time all students regardless of grade use a workbook which contains both study material and exercises. It works well for the younger students and is cheaper but is not in depth enough for the older students. With the addition of real textbooks, the seniors will receive a more substantial education due to the more detailed explanations, diagrams, and pictures a textbook can provide. It thus closes even more of the "educational quality" gap that separates students in the upper echelons 
of the privatized education system and those trying to rebuild their lives and their society from the ground up.
This is, of course, being tethered to the workbooks for the younger students. The budget for close to 500 students is coming in at $6613.84 US. It is far from cheap, but it is certainly attainable with your support. As Rea says "If everything works well and we can get books for the older children, it will be a miracle in the lives of SOPUDEP's students".
Thank you for your support!