Please see Montana’s Bigfork Eagle Newspaper article titled, “A Quest to Educate Afghanistan’s Children” which highlights the role Trust In Education is playing in Afghanistan.
Author: Budd
NEWSLETTER – June 2012
The packing party held four days ago once again demonstrated the strength and depth of TIE’s volunteer base. The call went out and over 100 showed up. We packed 279 large boxes of clothing, blankets, shoes, toys, stuffed animals and Mylar. We also filled plastic buckets with enough rice for 140,000 meals. It was a six… Continue reading NEWSLETTER – June 2012
Budd Wins 2012 Humanitarian Award
Budd didn’t want me to post this…but I am going to anyway! Although I might not have a job tomorrow, I think it is very important for our TIE family to hear that Budd was selected as Contra Costa County’s Humanitarian of 2012 by Local Happenings Magazine. I suspect that some of you may have… Continue reading Budd Wins 2012 Humanitarian Award
To Feed Or Not To Feed? That Is the Question.
There is considerable debate among aid organizations regarding what to do with the estimated 35,000 people living in refugee camps in Kabul. They are victims of what one author described as a “pitiless Catch-22 policy” established by international humanitarian aid providers” (click HERE for New York Times article). The World Food program stopped providing food to… Continue reading To Feed Or Not To Feed? That Is the Question.
Keep Up The Good Work!…Jan.31, 2012
Working at Trust in Education has been an amazing experience. As TIE is a grassroots organization, volunteers are the heart of soul of the group, and TIE volunteers are the best. I want to thank you for all you have given to the people of Afghanistan, and all I have learned from you in the… Continue reading Keep Up The Good Work!…Jan.31, 2012
TIE’s solar program featured in Colombia U’s Morningside Post….Dec 28, 2011
Jack Howell, Trust in Education’s Solar Oven Project Director, was featured in an article in Colombia’s University’s Morningside Post. To learn more about the challenges and benefits of solar use worldwide, see the article here.
TIE video for Afghan children wins award!….Dec 14, 2011
One of our TIE volunteers, Marie, has won a PTA Reflections award for the video she made for the Afghan children in our programs. In case you missed it:
Emmy-nominated interview shows the work of TIE….Nov. 17, 2011
Michelle Toy and Brent Cannon of NBC interview Budd about the work of Trust in Education in spring of 2008. Though several years old, this Emmy-nominated video does a great job of showing why the work of Trust in Education is so important .
The Girl Effect: Why Trust in Education invests in girls…Oct. 4, 2011
As “The Girl Effect” so aptly describes, educating girls makes a big difference to society in the long run: * When a girl in the developing world receives seven or more years of education, she marries four years later and has 2.2 fewer children. * An extra year of primary school boosts girls’ eventual wages by 10 to… Continue reading The Girl Effect: Why Trust in Education invests in girls…Oct. 4, 2011
One of our “rapid fixes”…….Sept. 28, 2011
One of the advantages of being a small grass-roots organization is that there are very few levels of approval. So when a well runs dry at one of our community learning centers, we can say “drill deeper” right away. Of course, since we run as a partnership with the Afghans, we offer to pay half… Continue reading One of our “rapid fixes”…….Sept. 28, 2011