Recipient of the Month
Lwak Girls School, Kenya

Millicent, an orphan, is one of the many girls supported by GGAC. Through hard work she managed to stand 45th out of 199 students in Form One (Grade 9). Good luck Millicent as your new school year starts in January!

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News

Pakistan - GGAC supports two schools through Developments in Literacy (DIL) - check out Nicholas Kristof's opinion column from the Sunday New York Times - November 23'08. This also includes a video of his visit to the schools.

'RUN/WALK FOR GGAC'

The Running Room supports Give Girls A Chance by providing a system to allow you to:

• create your own personal home page to raise funds for GGAC
• send personalized requests to supporters
• send a personalized thank-you
• track your own donation goal
• do much more

Sign up now -

1. Go to www.runningroom.com
2. Select the 'GIVING' tab, RAISE FUNDS and register to support GGAC
3. Follow the easy instructions.
   

Thank you to all who ran with the GGAC '08 Team!

(this information will be updated for the 2009 STWM as soon as it is available - approximately the end of February '09)

If you are walking or running the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon September 28th, 2008, please select STWM for instructions.

The challenge of running a race is a gift to yourself, give back and help girls to achieve their basic right of an education.

What others have also done!

• One group met after their weekly run for coffee at one of the member's homes and they contributed a $ amount each week.

• One group had a bake sale

• Have a pot luck dinner party and invite the guests to bring a tax deductable $ donation (only the $ donation is tax deductable). We can loan you a video of our works and send brochures.

• Got an fundraising idea? Let us know.