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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