During spring cleaning earlier this year, IEL got new chairs for the office’s conference rooms, but didn’t want the old ones to go into the trash. Instead, Maame Appiah, Director of Operations & Network Development for IEL’s Coalition for Community Schools, sent them to Ghana. Maame’s family members run Mother’s Love Kids Foundation Centre, a preschool in a high-poverty, high-need area in the town of Obuasi that serves 186 students ages 2-5. The chairs now provide classroom seating for the young students so they can better focus on their lessons. As you can see, they are putting our old chairs to great use! IEL is also sending its old LCD projector for use in the classroom. READ MORE…
