TGUP: Completed Projects in 2008
9 Completed Projects in 2008

1 - Dalsinghe School: Classrooms

Nepal, 2008, Education

Project #2 of 403

We built a three-room school in Dalsinghe, 50 kilometers west of Kathmandu. It was the first school of any kind in 120 square kilometers and it serves all the children from 5 villages. Each room is dedicated to teaching one of the educational levels: elementary, middle, and high school, with mixed grades learning at each level.

Under construction
Principal & students

TGUP Partner: Nepal Youth Opportunity Foundation

2 - School Transportation: Bicycles

Multiple Countries, 2008, Education

Project #3 of 403

We collected and sent 452 bicycles to Kenya and Botswana to help students get to school. Our “Wheels of Wonder” bicycle donation drive was carried out with Bay Area Kiwanis and Key Clubs. The recipients were trained on how to do basic repairs such as replacing chains and repairing punctures, and given the tools and materials.

Collecting US bikes
Students in Botswana

3 - Manyesa Primary School: Desks

Malawi, 2008, Education

Project #4 of 403

The residents of the remote village of Manyesa, in Malawi, had built a small village primary school but had no money left for desks. The Global Uplift Project provided the wooden bench desks needed for the 60 children at Manyesa Village Primary School that were funded by the students at Burlingame High School in California.

School under a tree
The new desks

TGUP Partner: Kasimu Education Fund

4 - Cows for Orphans: Nutrition

Kenya, 2008, Nutrition

Project #5 of 403

The children at the orphanage in Nanyuki were well cared for, but needed protein and calcium in their diet. We bought 2 milk cows for them. The cows will produce milk for eight years and have been bred so the cycle can continue indefinitely. The 120 orphans now have a balanced diet with milk every day for $2 per child per year!

The first cow
Enjoying fresh milk

TGUP Partner: SEANet

5 - Piglets for Girls: Assistance

Nepal, 2008, Education

Project #6 of 403

We bought 20 piglets and goats to save 20 Nepalese girls from being sold into slavery. The families will raise the animals for a year, on kitchen scraps, and then sell them. The money received from selling each pig or goat will be as much as they would have received from selling their daughter. Project funded by CA students.

Girl with her piglet
Girl walking her goat

TGUP Partner: Nepal Youth Opportunity Foundation

6 - Earthquake Relief: Assistance

China, 2008, Infrastructure

Project #7 of 403

The Asian Student Union at Los Altos High School, and the Latino Student Unions at Los Altos and Mountain View worked together and raised $3,000 to help victims of the devastating 2008 China earthquake. The fundraiser was done as soon as the students heard about the earthquake. All proceeds were donated to the China Red Cross.

Earthquake damage
Making the donation

TGUP Partner: China Red Cross

7 - Food Bank: Nutrition

USA, 2008, Nutrition

Project #8 of 403

Every year, students at Los Altos High School in Los Altos, CA collect food for the Second Harvest Food Bank Thanksgiving food drive. This year the drive was organized by The Global Uplift Project Club's students at the school, and they collected more than 30,000 pounds of food (the most ever) for the San Jose based food bank!

Where the food went
Some of the food

TGUP Partner: Second Harvest Food Bank

8 - Manyesa Village School: Shoes

Malawi, 2008, Health

Project #9 of 403

We sent 250 pairs of children's tennis shoes to the village of Manyesa, in Malawi. Malawi is the fourth-poorest country in the world and most of the recipients had never had a pair of shoes. One of the first things they did was to play a soccer game with the children from another village. They won the game. Was it the shoes?

Some of the shoes
Shoe recipients

TGUP Partner: Kasimu Education Fund

9 - High School Students: Calculators

Kenya, 2008, Education

Project #10 of 403

Students at high schools in the San Francisco Bay Area collected 350 used, but still working, solar calculators and sent them to students at schools in the Nanyuki area of Central Kenya, so that they could learn Algebra. We are not sure who was more thrilled — the American donating students or the Kenyan recipients.

Collecting calculators
Donated calculators

TGUP Partner: SEANet

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