One of my wife’s and my favorite charities is RISE International.
It builds schools in Angola, where founder Andrew Cole went to missionary school before the revolution.
His wife Lynn Cole carried on after her husband died.
I first got interested in 2007 when told of how the organization was building schools for $12,500 while Oprah Winfrey was spending $40 million to construction one in South Africa.
The schools were built by local residents out of mud bricks then.
They cost more now and are now constructed with concrete blocks.
RISE provides the financing, along with ExxonMobil and Educate A Child.
Funds contributed earn a 50-50 match up to $50 from the latter organization through Friday.
In cooperation with RISE, students at South High School in Crystal Lake have exhibited what life in Angola looks like for the last two years.
RISE reports in an email,
“Students at Crystal Lake South hosted their 2nd Walk Through Africa during lunch periods on 2/28.
“They raised awareness and money to give kids in Angola access to education,”
“Thank you!”
There are now 188 schools which have been financed by RISE International which educate over 135,000 children.
What a great Cause and Charity. Great to see CLS students take it up and do a presentation in the manner they did to show the differences between schools here and there, and whats needed. Nice too to know you know where your money is going and how its used, as well as it is headquartered out of the North suburbs. Angola is a tough place, a near constant Civil War. Worked for a guy who got out of there, Castro supported Rebels, came here, got educated, rose through the ranks and made boss.
As a matter of conscience, compassionate conservative Christian republikkklans must unite in boycotting any help to these Angola schools until we get complete clarification on whether their teachers are unionized and the fiscal condition of their retirement funds is fully available for a complete scrutiny by the almighty “Transparency and Accountability” squadron of this sunshine blog. Stay tuned…tic, tock, tic, tock, tic, tock, hug your neighbor, tic, tock, tic, tock, tic, tock, meeeeeeoooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww…
Castro supported the rebels fighting against US interests and South Africa’s Apartheid regime. Don’t you love the international affairs experts here on this sunshine blog? Stay tuned…tic, tock, tic, tock, tic, tock, hug your neighbor, tic, tock, tic, tock, meeeeeeoooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww…
Yeah let’s keep these foreign populations in clover.
Maybe these African populations are artificially high due to White medicine, generations of handouts, etc.
Message to Angolans: please don’t revert to cannibalism and slavery.
Angola was a good exporter when the Portuguese were running things.
Now it’s a basket case, like so many other pest holes!
Not good, I meant food