¡Por favor!  Be part of our gift!

Greetings to the San Marin community from Señora Watson, of the Foreign Language Department.   For the last two years, my students and I have participated in a sister school relationship with Escuela San Pedro, in Nicaragua.  The school is located in a small rural community of the same name, San Pedro, and was built with the help of volunteers from Seeds of Learning (SOL), a non-profit organization based in Sonoma, CA.  As our school year moves toward a close, we would like to be able to make a gift of funds to Escuela San Pedro, to support their efforts to offer educational opportunities to the young people of their community.

I first learned of  SOL when attending the memorial service of Deborah Standish, a beloved San Marin teacher. Deborah, along with her husband and daughters (both SM graduates), spent several vacations as a SOL volunteer, working side by side with community members from San Pedro, building this very school.  She would be delighted to see the sets of drawings, poems and cultural information sent to us three or four times a year by the students of San Pedro.  My students have enjoyed reciprocating with some beautiful writing and illustrations.  They have shared descriptions of themselves, their preferred activities, and the ways their families celebrate favorite holidays. In February, we composed poems of love and friendship.  My fourth-year students wrote some very thoughtful poetry exploring the theme of adolescence, which I think the older students in San Pedro found particularly interesting.

We invite you, in fact we implore you, to join us in supporting our sister school by making a donation, large or small, to this fundraising effort.  A contribution can be sent through one of my students, if you happen to know one, or can be sent to the main office, to the attention of Marcelyn Watson.  Checks should be made payable to Seeds of Learning, with a notation on the memo line "for Escuela San Pedro".  If your address is on the check, SOL will send you a receipt for tax purposes.

As we battle on to protect funding for education in our own community, perhaps we can feel some solidarity with people all around the globe whose most fervent hope lies in the education of their children.  And if you were touched by the vibrant and generous spirit of Deborah Standish, as so many in this community were, consider this an opportunity to honor her.  A few dollars will help purchase much needed supplies for some very eager students in San Pedro, Nicaragua.  ¡Mil gracias!

Questions?  Contact Marcelyn Watson (ext. 750) mwatson@nusd.org

For more information regarding SOL, go to www.seedsoflearning.org

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