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Bridging the Education Gap in Burkina Faso
What started as a pen pal program between students at Archer Elementary School and students at Ecole Nagueswende in Burkina Faso, Africa, has evolved into a larger community fundraising effort to help the impoverished school and its students. Led by Archer Elementary teacher Laurie Tornese, the Burkina Faso school has received money for new desks, and future plans include funds to help build a new classroom.
For Laurie Tornese and her students, it started out as a pen pal correspondence.
But before they knew it, the small school in West Africa, with its 239 children and four classes, had somehow found a way into their hearts.
Now, over a year later, Tornese and her students at Archer Elementary School have planned a Read-A-Thon to raise $2,122, the amount of money needed for owner and founder Mathias Ouedraogo to build another classroom for his students at Ecole Nagueswende, a school in Burkina Faso, Africa.
The Read-A-Thon will be held on Wednesday, March 23 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and will feature local celebrities such as Mike Potter from WCJB TV-20 and Storm Roberts from KTK 985 as well as other professionals in the community, who will read to the students and talk about their careers.
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