Today we drafted an email to send to Ousmane Mbaye, principal of the school in Keur Se Daro (the village L-W/Drew trip goes to in Senegal). We're sending it off to Youssou for translation into French, and then we can send it off to Mr. Mbaye!
Voila!
Dear Mr. Mbaye,
My name is Anya Richkind, and I go to Lick-Wilmerding High School in San Francisco, California, USA. I got your email address from Jacques Cusin, who, as you probably already know, is partially in charge of organizing a trip to Keur Se Daro which members of my school will be attending this summer.
I’m working with three fellow classmates in a class called the Philanthropy Initiative. Our group is working on a project focusing on malaria. We were interested in contacting you because we see a potential collaboration between our group and your school. We were thinking that one way to combat malaria is simply to spread awareness, and make sure that people in areas affected by malaria know about the seriousness of the disease. We thought that one way to do this would be to work through your school, to spread awareness to students.
In addition to what we already know about malaria, we have a couple of questions about how to best utilize the connection with your school:
· Would any sort of malaria education program be valuable to your school?
· Do you already have a program like this in place?
· If so, is there anything we could do to help improve this program?
· Is there any particular equipment needed to help improve this program (i.e. movie projector, books, etc)?
· How do you think a malaria education program could be run at your school (i.e. should the information be conveyed via movie, or books, or something else)?
I’d love to hear what you think about these questions, and our idea in general. I look forward to hopefully working with you in the future!
Thank you,
Anya Richkind
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