Year: 2018
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Project KARE’s wish list for school supplies for Karen students
With the arrival of Thanksgiving, and the giving season, our Project KARE team is gearing up for our next annual KARE trip! We’re returning to the Thai/Burma border to deliver much needed school supplies to Mae Ra Moe refugee camp and rural village schools in Karen State in Burma. With your continued support, we will deliver…
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Calling teachers and parents – Consider a Read-a-Thon for Project KARE?
If you’re an educator or an active school parent looking for an opportunity to teach students the value of philanthropy, what better way than to reinforce reading skills at the same time! Last year the 4th graders at University Park Elementary School here in Denver participated in a very successful Read-a-thon fundraiser and generated more…
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Mae Ra Moe Volunteer Blog post from Tricia Hepburn from the U.K.
We’re so thankful to Tricia and her friend Kerry Hunter for volunteering as English teachers at Mae Ra Moe refugee camp for two weeks in June. They taught English at the Bible School where students are studying to receive a Bachelor’s in Theology. To add a little extra cultural exposure into the educational mix for…
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Volunteer Blog Post – Kiri and Troy
The whole time I was at Mae Ra Moe I kept thinking EVERYONE WOULD LOVE THIS! It was an absolutely incredible experience! I wish I could bring all my family members and every person I care about to teach at the refugee camp. We learned so much and were treated with an enormous amount of…
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Volunteer Blog Post – Allison and Kate
I spent about three weeks volunteering at the Karen Refugee Camp and had the absolute best experience. The Karen people are the most kind, generous and resilient people. The students all truly wanted to be learning English and the teachers all were eager to help with anything we needed. Learning English is so important to…