Global Poverty Monitor

My second and main idea is a fundraising challenge for all of the schools. I would ask each school to come up with a fundraising idea to raise money for a project in the Cahora Bassa ADP. It would work the same way as a sponsor sending a Gift Notification for their sponsored child. The school would raise the money, and decide for themselves what area they would like their gift to go towards. I would provide ideas of course, from the experiences that I have had in Mozambique, and could advise them on some areas where the money is most needed. For instance, the school may decide they want to raise money for school materials, or for shoes for kids, or for water access, or to help kids get to school, or for medical supplies for a hospital, or whatever else they come up with. They may even choose to provide some livestock for a family, that the ADP Managers could then choose.

The area would be pretty wide, so that when the ADP receive the money they can have a wide discretion as to what the money should be used for, since they obviously know better than us what is needed. I would collect the money and send it to the ADP with a letter saying in which area the school would like the money to be spent, in exactly the same way as a sponsor sends money to their child’s family and community. Then the ADP would spend the money where they think fit, and would take photos and send them back to me, and I would then present them back to the school. I think that this kind of fundraising is great because the students will be able to see exactly where the money has gone, not just towards a particular cause. They can think ‘we raised this much money and it bought this borehole well’, or ‘these three cows’, or whatever. I would also set up a website with all the details and so that the students or teachers can contact me. There will be an achievements page, where all the schools will be listed along with their fundraising ideas, how much they raised, and eventually what their fundraising money was used for, along with the scanned photos of what the money has bought.