Following the profitable launch of the Eileen Yee Academic Fund final month, we’re celebrating Eileen’s beginning anniversary in September by kickstarting an annual occasion known as The Eileen Yee Academic Fund Pink Week. From 23-27 September, we are going to organise a plethora of actions aimed toward highlighting the fund, whose proceeds have already began impacting deprived communities in Vietnam.
To construct on points like entry to training, which Eileen was so captivated with, we have now devoted this month to elevating consciousness about how highschool college students within the communities we help typically stroll as much as 4 km every single day simply to get to and from faculty. Other than being an apparent security hazard, this deters many college students from attending faculty often and even results in a few of them dropping out altogether.
So, this month, the Discova employees are actually strolling within the sneakers of those college students not simply to narrate to their day by day expertise however to additionally rally help and elevate funds to vary lives. Titled Stroll 101, every workforce member shall be strolling 4 km day by day to succeed in 101 km on the finish of the month and lift cash by way of particular person fundraising pages that they share with their connections and on social media.
