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Elementary School in Nicaragua
ODFL builds elementary school in Nicaragua.
ODFL, working with Seeds of Learning (SOL) in the summer of 2009, built a new elementary school classroom in the village of San Martin.
ODFL Projects
What did ODFL do since its first year of operation? From January 2007 to the present and with thousands of one dollar contributions from all over the United States, ODFL has in:
- 2007 Built a new school for 45 students in the village of Naro Moru in Kenya. [Read more]
- 2007 Raised 6,000 pounds of food at Thanksgiving for the Second Harvest Food Bank.
- 2008 Built a 3 room school in Nepal for 84 students who went to class under a tree. [Read more]
- 2008 Bought 60 desks for the Kisimu village primary school in Malawi. [Read more]
- 2008 Built a new classroom for the Ngenia Mixed Secondary School in Timau, Kenya. [Read more]
- 2008 Bought 2 milk cows to feed protein to 120 orphans in Nanyuki, Kenya. [Read more]
- 2008 Collected and sent 452 bicycles to Africa—our “Wheels of Wonder” bicycle drive. [Read more]
- 2008 Sent 350 used but still working calculators to high school students in Kenya.
- 2008 Raised $3,000 to help student victims of the 2008 China earthquake.
- 2008 Bought 20 piglets to save 20 Nepalese girls from being sold into slavery.
- 2008 Built a three-room school, funded desks for 72 students, a set of toilets, and a playground for the children in Nepal [Read more]
- 2008 Sent 250 pairs of tennis shoes to students in the village of Manyesa in Malawi
- 2009 Built an engineered latrine system for the Kiini Secondary School in Nyeri, Kenya. [Read more]
- 2009 Built a new classroom for the village of San Martin in Nicaragua. [Read more]
- 2009 Renovated a classroom and community center in the village of Ban in Indonesia. [Read more]
- 2009 Built a new classroom for 40 students at the Mureru District Day School in Kenya. [Read more]
All of this was made possible by one-dollar donations from tens of thousands of American students, and the volunteer efforts of many teachers. We’re building a better world out there, and bigger people here at home, students who are connected, compassionate, cooperative and competent—our “4 C’s”. We literally are changing the world. You can, too!
Yours in a Better World,
ODFL
Future Projects:
Other projects currently under evaluation bear the same characteristics as the Naromoru Secondary School project in Kenya. Specifically, they made significant contributions to the self-sustaining character of developing world economies in one of the areas of education, health, agricultural productivity, or infrastructure.
- Elementary school classroom in Nicaragua
- High school classroom in Kenya
- Elementary school classroom in El Salvador
Projects Standards:
ODFL generally funds projects around the world with these criteria
- Fall within ODFL target project domain
- Education
- Health
- Agricultural productivity
- Economic infrastructure
- Increases capacity for self sustenance or growth among recipient populations
- Within scale of comparable projects already completed by NGO partner
- Does not require sustained funding or management by ODFL or other organizations, including partnering NGO, for projects to be effective
- Fully defined and agreed upon performance metrics and project schedules
- No anticipated adverse cultural/racial/gender/religious effects
- Explicit agreement in place with recipient population leaders re: local resources committed to install/sustain project
- Explicit before/after documentation of project impact in appropriate mediums
More detailed project criteria info on NGO page
