Hello, hello, all beautiful souls! It is Friday, the one day I try to give back to this wonderful community by investing in all of our futures. Yes, you guessed it! This is my predictable Friday post, in which I try to help the project that I am most proud of in the way that I know I can. Writing!
All proceeds from this post will go to @SchoolForSDG4, created by @azizbd, to help host a weekly fruit program and/or provide educational materials for the kids.
This weeks fruit program brought grapes to the colorful carpet in our favorite school. I love grapes, they are sweet and sometimes sour, the ones without seeds are the best though! Here you can see some green grapes, my favorite are those sweet ones or the purple ones that are even sweeter. I know, I have a sweet tooth :D. But who does not once in a while? Especially if that sweet goodness comes from a healthy fruit?
Emon and Ahadul having fun at school.
Okay, that is fun and a little creepy. For some reason, those eyes remind me of this one old movie. Where a whole town of women gets impregnated by aliens and give birth to some freaky children that move in pairs and are highly unsettling altogether. But we are not watching that scary movie now and everything is okay. Ahdul and Emon are just being kids and playing around with some eyes(I think those are bouncy balls) :D. Look, they are even in different colors!
Moriyam ,Shati , Nadiya , Ayesha Moni
A bunch of new students have joined the school and we can see that they are not used to be in pictures. I remember how, when I started with the posts for the charity, the kids always looked sad or scared in photos, but with time they got used to the camera and started smiling at us! I hope those new additions to the huge @SchoolForSDG4 family will start to feel comfortable in the group soon enough. I hope they fall in love with learning and finding out new things because if they do, we will see these same faces, but with huge smiles and, hopefully, bright futures!
@Azizbd has joined to play some games with the kids in this shot. I love when we get insights into not only the school life of learning but also how the kids are having fun. They are engaged and invested in the game and through that, they not only are entertained but also acquire knowledge. Logical thinking, memory training, those are just some of the skills that kids acquire by doing real life things, like playing games and assembling puzzles. They do not have to just memorize things like for an exam. They have real experiences that the brain can easier understand and that stay in their minds much longer.
Another news is that the kids are getting their own Debit Cards. The bank is covering the expenses for the making and maintenance of those cards so the little ones families do not have to invest any money in the creation of those plastic pieces. That means that if the kids decide to have savings they can keep them in the bank instead of risking losing them to theft. I know banks are not the safest option regarding the financial systems of our world at the moment, not a lot of people trust the institutions those days but I think this is an option worth having for the kids as it is safer than hiding their money in a piggy bank, they can learn about how money works and they can save up a little.
As the school is growing, @Azizbd and some very invested steemians are looking into the future with great hope. There are talks going on about introducing a lunch program to the project that might be a little rarer than the fruit program in the beginning but hopefully will grow with time. The charity is getting bigger and bigger, I think it is one of the most successful and beautiful projects on steemit. At this point, I have no doubt that one day @Azizbd is going to be able to acquire that land and build a school for the kids, maybe even grow the student count to a hundred. Or more!
With this wonderful community, everything is possible, I have been proven that, not only through this charity but also by seeing how my own work has been recognized in this ocean of minnows, dolphins, and whales. I am so thankful for all of you, I am so happy to be here, to grow my dream and help others with their goals and hopes.
All the pictures are recent and provided by @azizbd, any questions about the project can be resolved with him, he will be happy to answer any questions if you are interested to help this project and have any idea about how to make it better. Heck, he will even get up at 4 AM in the morning just to talk to somebody about ideas. Here is a link to his steemit chat: https://steemit.chat/direct/azizbd
If you would like to contribute by making a post, you can contact Mohammed ( @azizbd ) and he will provide pictures for you, anyone spreading the word is welcome. The income from the post can be sent to @schoolforsdg4, if you think you deserve any Steem for your hard work making a post, keep a dime, even a small donation from your posts means a lot to those kids.
If you have any Steem to spare, donations are welcome. @schoolforsdg4 is where you want to send them.
If you can't spare any Steem, because I know everybody has their lives to live and expenses needed to be covered, a simple upvote is very much appreciated, a resteem is encouraged. :)
As I said, all income from this post will go towards the project, my rewards are set to 50/50 payout, but I am always able to find the SBD my posts make, so I will be able to forward all income from this post to @schoolforsdg4.
Wishing you a wonderful time, today, tomorrow and forever,
Linda