Glowing with Hope
Amanda Nied, a first grade teacher in Dallas, came up with a great idea and allowed us to give even more money to the DD Dliwayo School. I'm touched and inspired by this story. I hope that we are able to continue to support this amazing school. Please let me know if you still want to give money to the school, because we are still able to pass on donations to them. Thanks Amanda!
Below is the story in Amanda's words:
I was inspired by the acts of Hanson and Toms shoes in the fall. I joined the guys on 5 walks, and love my TOMS shoes. I am a teacher of 22 first grade students in a DFW area city. Following our study of Africa, the kids were inspired to raise money to better the educational system in Africa. We choose the DD Dliwayo School in Soweto because we had seen your amazing photos, and that was a tangible image the kids could use as motivation. We brainstormed several ways to raise money, and settled on selling glowing wristbands under the catch phrase "Glowing With Hope". Each morning 5 child volunteers would come in and work the sales table. After just one week of selling glow bracelets for $1, 22 6-7 year olds had raised $577. They were so proud of themselves! As a teacher, that's a lesson that is priceless. A lesson that not only makes a child smarter, but a better person all around.
Labels: Africa, DD Dliwayo School, Hanson
posted by A Bryan Photo at
9:02 PM
9 Comments:
what a great and inspiring story. reading it gave me the chills. thanks for sharing. and thanks for always inspiring us to be better and do greater. i hope that someday i can make as big an impact as you have.
deb
Amanda! that's awesome!!! it's amazing that they raised so much money! unbelievable!
I'm really happy that you, as a teacher, are making them aware of the needs of other people. That's a lesson not all teachers teach. It's wonderful that they care for other kids, really.
Hugs for you all, you must be very proud of what you did, and very strong to keep going ;)
-mariana
(thanks bryan for sharing the story with us!)
That's wonderful,Amanda...what a touching story and to raise such a large sum of money in a short space of time is fantastic. What beautiful kids they are too. You should be very proud of yourself and the kids. Well Done!
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this is really touching...
God Bless amanda, those kids and all of you guys that is doing anything you can just to help this people!!
That's a wonderful story. Those kids should be so proud of what they've done to help other children their age. It's really inspiring!
What an awesome thing to teach her students! You don't hear about character being built in school so much these days.
I'm sure those kids will carry the feeling of helping throughout their lives. Awesome.
A nice teacher will lead childen to be have a soft-nice heart.Well done.
That's a great story.. Bryan, I'm glad you and Hanson could inspire so many good people to help in any way they can.
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