Project Yesu: Kids CAN Change the World

by on 16. Jan, 2012 in 21st CENTURY EDUCATION, PASSION DRIVEN, SOCIAL MEDIA

I am thrilled to share this very special guest post from eleven year old Mallory; sixth grader and world-change agent.

You will be amazed and inspired as you hear her describe the day she made the decion to change the world.

In October 2011 I sat down to write my Christmas list for my parents, I looked around my room and I realized there was nothing I needed, nothing I wanted. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought about the children in Africa, and how they weren’t going to get Christmas presents, and there was a lot of things that they needed. So, I sent my mom an email with my Christmas list, one thing on it, to help Africa.

See, in August of 2010 the Ugandan Orphan Children’s Choir came to my church to perform, and I got to meet the children, and they were amazing. They were so loving, and just wanted to hug me and hold my hand. My mom had also started doing work for a couple of organizations that helped in Uganda, so she had taught me about the children there.

The day after I sent the email my Mom and I sat down and talked about what I wanted to do, and how I wanted to help. I contacted Amazima Ministries and Project Have Hope and I told them what I wanted to do, and I asked them how I could best help them. That is how Project Yesu was born.

My goals at first were simple, I wanted to raise $600 to sponsor 2 children, one from Amazima and one from Project Have Hope. When you sponsor a child, it pays for food, medicine and sends them to school. I also decided I wanted to send Christmas cards to the children in Uganda, I mean who doesn’t like to get a card, it makes you smile. So I drew two different card designs and I contacted a local printing company and asked them if they would donate the printing of 650 cards, they did.

So I started to tell people about Project Yesu, and my mom helped me start a blog so people could read about it. I met with my Children’s pastor and asked if our youth group could help me with the cards, because I wanted them to be personal, so I needed a lot of help to write out 650 cards. I also spoke to my youth group, and told them about Project Yesu and about the children in Uganda and asked them to help me raise money.

Every week I set up a booth at my church to tell people about my project, and the word spread.  

In only 8 weeks I raised over $2,400 and I was able to sponsor 7 children. It was way more then I had originally planned on and it was great. I got to meet some wonderful people, and tell them my story. I was invited to go to WAYFM a Christian radio station because they learned about my project, and I was even on TV. The NBC station out of Nasvhille did a story on Project Yesu.

I read a quote one day from Mahatma Ghandi that said, “Be the change you want to see in the world”. That’s what I want to do, I want to be the change, I want to make a difference, I want to help people. Everyone thinks kids are selfish or that we’re just kids and we can’t do anything like this. I want to show people what a difference one person can make. If someone, because they heard about me, or met me, decides that they can be a change too, then it will spread from me, to that person, to another person and so on.

Kids have good ideas, and you know what? We don’t know all the reasons why it won’t work, we just know we what we want to do.  I know with Project Yesu, I am making a difference, not only in the lives of the seven children in Uganda who now have food, medicine and can go to school. But I am making a difference in the lives of my family, my friends, my teachers and even people I have never met before.

I want Project Yesu to continue to spread and grow, and to do that I need people like you, who are reading this post to spread the word and to help me. My goals for 2012 is to raise $4,500 – who knows maybe I’ll double that this year or even triple that and be able to help more and more children in Uganda. I plan to travel to Uganda in December of 2012 to hand deliver the Christmas cards to the children, to meet my sponsored children and to love on the children of Uganda who have changed my life.

If you want to know more about Project Yesu, or how you can help you can find me on 

I am selling T-shirts and wristbands to raise funds, and I am also looking for families, groups, classrooms or anyone to be a part of the “Be The Change” campaign by collecting coins to donate towards Project Yesu.

So I have accepted the challenge to be the change….will you?

 

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  • http://www.brucesallan.com Bruce Sallan

    Beautiful story. And for one so young! Wow. I sponsor a girl’s school in Ghana and it’s so rewarding. It all happening thanks to Social Media. The more we do good in the world, the better the world will be! Thx, Teach!

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  • http://twitter.com/Howardrm25 HowardRobertsonGr3

    Great idea!! The Grade 3′s at Howard Robertson Public School read the book Give a Goat by Jan West Schrock. Together, we wrote presentations for all classes in our school to raise funds for a goat in Africa. Daily announcements encouraged students to bring in loose change from home. We collected over $210. This was enough money to purchase 1 goat, a flock of geese, a flock of chickens and a hive of honey bees. As a school and a community, we are very proud of the generosity of our Howard Robertson students and families, in Kitchener, Ontario.

  • http://twitter.com/AngelaMaiers Angela Maiers

    That is wonderful Howard. Would you be interested in having your kids share a post on the blog about their experience. Would love to post that story! Just email me at angelamaiers@gmail.com

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