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June 1, 2007
Professional
Graphic designers from across the city of Knoxville will be combining
their talents and hosting a fundraiser for a local non-profit charity
that helps educate impoverished children in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
The charity, Casa de Sara, is based in Knoxville, Tennessee but
also has offices and a school in Santa Cruz. The designers will
be offering their services to design logos for individuals or small
businesses for a one-time donation of $200. “Many advertising
agencies charge into the thousands for a business logo. We thought
this would be a wonderful way for people to give to Casa de Sara
and get something useful in exchange for their donation,” said
Dan Frye, a participating designer. “We have about 15-20 professional
designers who are willing to donate a limited amount of their time
for developing “icons” for individuals. The fundraiser
is not just limited to logos said Frye. “If someone wants us
to illustrate a tattoo or create a character for their use we’d
be able to do that as well. We could design a family crest or a
monogram for anything they want to use it for. And its all for a
wonderful cause.
Lori Santoro founded the non-profit group in 2001 after a personal
trip to the country of Boliva. “Educating children is our mission,”
said Santoro, “and our children live in a highly impoverished
neighborhood. The third-world conditions often mean that most children
who attend the public schools in Bolivia may not have the basic
supplies needed to educate a child. “Classrooms are very bare
and often there are no desks, chalkboards, pencils or papers. Textbooks
are even a rarer commodity. I was saddened that so many children
were not able to be given an education simply because of poverty.
We have established an amazingly successful school for kindergarten
age children and first-graders. Our curriculum has slowly evolved
to include a heavy influence of Montessori style teaching along
with traditional methods. This way of teaching has proven very successful
for our little school! In addition, our children participate in
field trips and continue to receive health care, daily vitamins,
breakfast and snacks.”
Those interested
in making a donation and receiving a logo can log on to casadesara.org
and download an Icon-o-thon request
form. Donations made by check, money order or credit card are
accepted.
Escuelitas
“Escuelitas” (little schools) are designed to reach and
meet the needs of children in highly impoverished communities. Our
schools are run and staffed by local personnel, providing jobs for
those in the community. We offer a unique and well-rounded curriculum
that has been developed by experts abroad and in the USA. Special
attention is given to each child’s healthcare issues, nutrition,
and individual needs.
Casa de Sara
also provides outreach educational programs - such as healthcare
education - and summer school programs that include dance, art,
English and soccer to public schools and communities in need of
assistance.
Mission
Statement
Casa de Sara provides education and healthcare for Hispanic and
Indigenous children in The Americas.
Vision
Statement
Give a child an education and you give him or her a future. Give
a child a future and you have changed the future of the world.
Objective
To establish and manage new schools, provide supplemental educational
programs, create job opportunities for local staff, provide scholarships,
and conduct periodic healthcare clinics for students and their surrounding
communities.
More
information on the charity is available on its website www.casadesara.org.
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