Penny Rally

August 25th, 2008 at 04:29pm Pam Keeling

Come to the Penny Rally on Tuesday, August 26th at Burpee Museum from 2:30 to 5:30.  This is the place to learn all you need to know to conduct your own Pennies for Peace campaign at  your school, church or business.  This is also a place to drop off pennies for the P4P cause.  If you miss the rally, the REA is the place to go.  They have a P4P room in their office with photos, coin sorter (thanks to AmCore Bank) and a staff devoted to make Rockford’s P4P a success.  The goal of this campaign is to raise the $50,000 necessary to build and endow a school in rural Afghanistan. 

 Greg Mortenson of the best selling book, Three Cups of Tea, discovered the hunger for education that exists throughout the most rural areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan where children had NO schools.  Now thanks to Mr. Mortenson and his Central Asia Institute, over 70 schools have been built educating tens of thousands of children (with an emphasis on girls) in these locations.  Rockford’s children understand this lesson and will catch the fever of the hunger for education as a tool for peace and understanding in our world.

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