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Educate!
Clubs
Start
an Educate! Student Club
Interested in starting your own Educate! student club
at your school? Good! E-mail educate@educateafrica.org
expressing interest and then check out the following
info:
For
high schools:
- First
start by getting the permission of an administrator
(usually a principal or vice principal) or at least
check if you need their approval.
- Then
you will usually need a teacher sponsor so choose
a teacher who you think will be interested in Educate!
- preferably one that you know well. It may take
a week or two for the school to approve the club,
but once they do, you’re set to go.
- Once
your schools approves the club, set up a meeting
time and advertise your first meeting. At the first
meeting, tell everyone about what Educate! does
and the prospective projects you have in mind. See
if anyone has any other ideas of projects they would
like to do.
For
colleges and universities:
-
Find out what the procedure is for starting an on-campus
organization.
- Once
you know, advertise (flyers, stuffing mail boxes,
telling your friends) your first meeting and go
from there. Tell the group about Educate! and what
it does and see what kinds of projects the group
is interested in undertaking.
Once
you started your club:
- One
way to introduce Educate! to the school could be
to do human rights and refugee awareness and then
work to alleviate the problem one person at a time
by raising money to send a refugee to school. Through
awareness, everyone would know of the problem and
you would provide an easy way to make a difference
in an affected person's life.
- Your
club can hold guest speakers, concerts, raffles,
auctions, or anything else you want. One of the
best ways to raise money is to send fundraising
letters out to family, friends, and local businesses
(for
a sample fundraising letter click here).
- If
your club raises enough money, it can adopt a student,
pay for his or her education, and build a cross-cultural
friendship with him or her. Either way, you have
the opportunity to contact all of the Educate! students.
- In
addition, you can do other educational and Africa
awareness projects to let your school know of the
situation Educate! students live in.
Educate!
can provide you with any materials that you may need
from brochures to posters, to stamps and envelopes.
Also, if you are hosting a big event Educate! can
help cover some of the expenses.
If
you are interested in starting an Educate! student
club e-mail educate@educateafrica.org
and we will get you set up!
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