The Learning Center needs our help!

Here is an update of the learning center from the Amped staff:

With the help of Frontier and Turners Falls High School students, Amped for Education opened a learning center in August 2014 in an impoverished area of Nicaragua. The area schools have dismal records when it comes to test scores, attendance rates, and achievement.  The idea behind the learning center is to communicate with public school teachers and reinforce concepts that are learned in class through project-based learning.
The need for education in the community could not have been more profoundly demonstrated as the center was broken in to and the learning materials for the children were stolen. The chairs that our students sit in each day, the soccer balls that they use during recreation time, and the food that they eat during break were all taken. Our instructors used this as a learning moment to explain to students that doubling down on their commitment to themselves through education can prevent their generation from being so desperate. We have now provided another job, albeit unexpected, to a Nicaraguan, as we have a security guard at the facility overnight to ensure that nothing like this happens again.
The students and community have shown great resolve during this, still attending class the very day after the robbery; sharing what was left of the chairs and taking turns standing during lessons. Community members rallied around us and provided temporary supplies to repair our fence.

Now, we need your help to replace the items taken and help pay for the caretaker that will help ensure security in the future. For example, one chair costs approximately $6, but absolutely no donation is too small.  All of the money raised will go directly to supporting the learning center and the education of Nicaraguan students.

We put a lot of effort into building that place and I want to make sure that we continue to support it even though we are back in the US.  I created an Indiegogo fundraising campaign to try and raise the money to restock the learning center. 

Here is the link:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/amped-for-education-learning-center/x/6403569


Please contribute any small amount that you can, but MORE IMPORTANTLY, share what you did with as many people as you can!  Show them your pictures and tell them the story of what you did in El Pantanal.  Share this fundraising campaign as a way to spread the word!