Essays, articles, and updates from PaperSeed's projects.
When lockdowns sent 1.5 billion children home from school, many of our grantee partners had to halt their activities. But their dedication to their work pushed them to find creative solutions to continue providing education to the children they serve. Our partners at Girl Rising Guatemala have taken to the airwaves to reach youth in their communities:
Read MoreThe COVID crisis has had a profound impact on all our lives, but children from lower income families have been especially hard hit. In fact, our partners at Open Doors—a shelter for vulnerable families in Connecticut—reports that need for meal assistance has tripled since March, when lockdown orders began in the United States.
Read MorePaperSeed’s First Annual Run to Raise was a great success, and we were so pleased to have so many people from around the globe join us. Among our participants were seven students from the MAIA Impact School in Guatemala.
Read MoreWe like to support programs that train local mentors because they tend to have a stronger bond with their community and a greater understanding of the cultural barriers and influences that affect youth in their area. Often, that’s because these young adult mentors have faced the same struggles. One such mentor recently shared her experience with us, and we’re honored to be able to share it with you now
Read MoreThe East African Girls Leadership Summit is this week and we wanted to share an update about the great work our friends at the Creative Action Institute are doing.
Read MoreLife for a Mayan Indigenous girl is fraught with difficulty. Living primarily in remote villages, Mayan Indigenous girls are born into a rigid social structure where education is frequently not an option for them. Persistent gender discrimination, coupled with the highly gendered expectations that girls help their mothers with house chores, cooking, and caring for other family members results in Mayan Indigenous girls being far less educated than their male counterparts. But lack of education is just one component of the pervasive cycle of poverty girls face in this part of the world. . .
Read MoreMalala Yousafzai’s birthday was this month, and we spent the day reflecting on how inspirational Malala has been to us, our work, and the world at large. Malala’s story is extraordinary, and the girl herself is nothing short of a modern-day legend. The thing is, it isn’t enough for the world to have one girl like Malala.
Read MoreImagine you have to persuade someone to change their stance on something. Don't you think your chances of success might be higher if that person is a neighbor?
Read MoreIt’s a bright, cold February morning in Half Moon Bay. Sixth-graders are walking around the garden, collecting leaves of kale and chard, using their senses to scope out items for a scavenger hunt. Nearby, another group of students gather on a semicircle of hay bales to learn about milking goats, bolstering their voices to be heard over the contented clucking of the laying hens who wander the neighboring pasture. It is, for all intents and purposes, a typical morning at Vida Verde Nature Education.
Read MoreOur friends at the Kilgoris Project do outstanding work, and are truly transforming a community. As such, we are proud to continue our partnership with them in 2018.
Read MoreThe PaperSeed Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening educational opportunities for children and young people in underserved and resource-lacking communities around the world.
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