What does PALS do?

PALS has identified Mbaka Oromo Primary School (Grades 1-8, with 600 students) in western Kenya as a partner school. Forty percent of the students at Mbaka Oromo are orphans that need support for uniforms, lunches, and school fees. Partnership activities involve fundraising, cultural awareness events, joint classroom activities, and student/teacher exchanges.

Why a school partnership?

PALS builds on the United Nations Millennium Development goal for universal primary education. It establishes direct connections between Lansing and Kenyan schools, in which financial aid is coupled with personal, cultural, and educational ties between the schools. As the students learn about each other, this community-to-community approach allows all participating schools to be both a donor and a recipient.