WHAT
YOUR SCHOOL CAN DO
Contact
Your school can correspond by letter and/or email, in the process
providing encouragement to the children and teachers, who are often
working with very limited resources.
Fund raising
You can hold fund-raising events, such as non uniform days,
arts and crafts stalls, cake sales, dance marathons, fashion shows, fun
runs, read-a-thons, quizzes and other creative sponsored events. Money
raised from these events goes towards supporting your twinned school.
Many schools are without basic supplies and in some countries the
children are inadequately fed. You can target your fund raising to your
sponsored school’s particular needs, such as a water supply, feeding,
school bags filled with supplies or school equipment. The funds will
then be used to purchase these items locally.
Shoeboxes
Your school can take part in our Sponsor a Shoebox programme.
Smile then arranges for the gifts to be purchased locally and put into
suitable boxes or baskets. This avoids transportation costs and import
taxes, and ensures that the gifts are suitable to the culture concerned.
Each box costs approximately £5 to fill.
Visits
Staff members may visit your twinned school, so that you can see first-hand the
difference your help is making, as well as strengthen the friendships already
made
It is a requirement that all visits are organised through Smile
International and, in the interests of child protection, no independent
visits are permitted.
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