Transformed International thanks the students and faculty at E.T. Richardson Middle School for the funds raised during their Thirty Days To Make a Difference fund raiser. These funds were raised to help educate the children at the Hope Bright Future School in Soweto Slums, Nairobi.

The school raised $3,031!

You may never fully realize the impact you helped to make in the lives of these 200 children who would otherwise not receive any education at all.

- Daniel

The 2009 TI intern girls began a project with a group of single teenage mothers where they would make greeting cards. With each card they made, they were paid something that was able to help them to feed their child. In only 5 months, the girls made over 8,000 cards. These cards are now being sold in the U.S. and Canada by our TI teams.

From the money one girl earned, she was able to return to high school. The other 5 girls expressed interest in learning a trade that would allow them to sustain their families in the future.

Thanks to a generous donation from individuals from Pennsylvania, we were able to buy five sewing machines. The girls are now in their second week of tailoring classes.

After 9 to 12 months of classes, each one of the girls (who are now between the ages of 15 and 18 years old) will be able to begin their own business in their homes.

When I daily see the overwhelming poverty all around, I wonder if we are making any difference at all, but then I see the joy on the faces of these five teen mothers and I know that a difference is being made. If we lived our whole life and only impacted one person, we have succeeded.

- Daniel