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Drew McLellan

So....how do we start?

After all, sending one box of crayons is better than not sending any, right?

Welcome to the blogging world. Always remember and stay focused on the passion that brought you here in the first place.

Drew

Robyn McMaster

Hi Laura, what a calling you have! I also sense that literacy is tightly connected to poverty. When I see the failure rates in our city high schools and the amount of poverty in the inner cities right here in our own nation, you know it is true as well.

I'll be stopping back to see where this passion takes you and how you go about addressing it.

Mike Sansone

Hey Laura. Great dream! Thanks for sharing and inviting us to join and assist your vision and mission. What can we do to help? Stay contagious!

Laura Hecht

Drew,
Thanks to you, we have already started. We continually discuss it and bring others together to support a common goal - eradicating illiteracy through awareness and passion. I am always looking for resources, individuals, and groups to support me in advice, materials to send or by financial means. I hit the pavement hard before school started and have been collecting unwanted supplies from schools.
Thanks for your comment and encouragement. Any advice or help - I am happy to receive it.
Laura

Laura Hecht

Robyn,
Thanks for the encouragement. I appreciate your comments and support. Please check back regularly as I continually am advocating for the poverty-stricken in my daily work.
Laura

mrsdurff

Have you talked to Sharon Peters? I think she talked about her trip on a recent WOW2.0 show, but I don't think they posted the recording yet. She is on twitter as well, @speters i think you should talk to her!

Laura Hecht

mrsdurff,
Thanks for the suggestion. I will be looking for the WOW2.0 show as well as twittering her. Working together gets things accomplished - Thanks for my next step toward my dream!

Drew McLellan

Laura,

I think it starts with you telling the world what it is you need. Or ask for connections.

For example, I have a friend who is helping his church build an orphanage in Africa. Maybe they'd be a good partner. Or perhaps you want to create a site where you partner with an office supply company and they sell stuff for cost?

I think we need some direction from you. It's your dream -- how do you want it to manifest itself?

Do you want the DSM bloggers to adopt a village? Do you want to organize a group of teachers to make it their class project?

You create the vision and let us help you build to it.

Drew

rushay

hi there Laura love the blog good work and i love that photo i try to document everything around me in south africa www.flickr.com/rushay education is so important and alot of kids out here have a inferior education system sending you love from Rushay

Laura Hecht

Rushay,
From one who lives with the lack of educational excellence, I can only imagine the frustration you feel on a daily basis. Thanks for the response. It means a lot from someone who lives in Africa!!! I checked out your pictures. Great job yourself.
My best,
Laura

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