Education Bangladesh Project #23862

Educating the slums

by Maria Cristina Foundation

Project Report | Jul 10, 2017
Thank you for helping our children study

By Maria Conceicao | Founder

One of our graduates.

Dear friends,

I have good news: we have manged to secure school fees payment for all our children for the current year (January 2017 - December 2017). We are incredibly humbled by your support and thank you for helping us make this happen.

I would like to say a special thanks for HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the Vice President of the UAE and the ruler of Dubai, and Dubai Cares for granting us $25k towards the school fees for the current year.

We now continue to raise funds for the next year and hope to be ahead of schedule. This will allow us to give some much-needed attention to issues other than fundraising for school fees. Our students need school transport, meals and uniforms. They also need our time and guidance, especially those on the brink of graduating. Many wonderful volunteers have visited recently and given workshops on CV writing, held mock-interviews and given the students more ideas about different career paths.

I completed another challenge: 6 Ironmans on 6 continents in 56 days. It was a gruelling couple of months, but I got through it and raised nearly $25k. This also got us some much-needed media exposure. Thanks to everyone for your generous donations and encouragement.

In Dhaka, we are as busy as ever. The older students are tutoring the younger ones and an English language study group for parents has been opened. We have had 40+ visitors in the past 3 months, who have all contributed to school transport and meals.

Two students graduated this May and are now looking to go to university. I could not be prouder of their achievement For the children we help in Dhaka, graduating from high school is an incredible achievement and something that nobody in their families has achieved before.

I am so grateful to each and every sponsor. No matter the amount, you are all contributing to changing lives.

Thank you.

Maria's 6 Ironman finishes on 6 continents.

Most of the children also celebrated Ramadan.

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Apr 11, 2017
New successes, new challenges

By Katrin Winter | Fundraising manager

The start to this new year has been a challenge for us. We needed to find sponsors for all our 127 children. 16 students still need your help for this year. If we cannot secure their fees, they will have to drop out.

The children in Bangladesh do not need sympathy. What they need is a chance, someone to take action and make a plan. Getting married as young as 13 to men twice their age or laboring in gloomy garment factories are the primary options for girls without education. Boys will find work as day laborers, rickshaw drivers or return to run-down farms in the countryside.

The lives of the children we are educating have already changed. Their mindsets are different. They strive for much more than their parents ever could. Those 12, who graduated last year have found gainful employment or gone to universities across the world. We could not be prouder. None of this would be possible without you.

Many of you have opted for monthly donation. This has been immense help and allows us to plan for the future better. Thank you for your commitment.

Our founder, Maria Conceicao, has now started her latest extreme challenge: 6 Ironman on 6 continents.

What Maria is doing is well beyond her physical limits, but there is nothing she wouldn’t do for ‘her’ children. Like any Mother would, she is fighting for her children at the cost of her own life.

It is a 42km run, 3.8km swim and 180km bike ride. A full Ironman is something that seasoned athletes train for a year. We do not have the luxury of time. Extreme levels of training are needed to go from a novice athlete to Ironman level. Maria is risking serious injuries to accomplish this.

Help Maria raise USD479,000 to pay for school fees up to 2026, to give a better life to those the whole world seems to have forgotten. It may seem like a large amount, but is a small price to pay for completely changing 127 lives.

With endless gratitude,

MCF team

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1st Quarterly report 2017 (PDF)

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Jan 13, 2017
Make an impact in 2017

By Katrin Winter | Fundraising and outreach

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