School Collaborations
Part of Margie’s Foundation – Project Education is about collaborating with schools across the UK to raise awareness, in the minds of the children, of the Indigenous Maasai tribe and their way of life; how similar and how different they are to their own. We can all learn so much from the Maasai and all Indigenous tribes – living at one with nature, protecting & respecting it.
One of the key things to come out of the recent pandemic, particularly in the younger generation, is the need to connect and to have a strong sense of place. The Maasai communities have both of these in abundance.
Our First School Collaboration
The first school Margie’s Foundation has collaborated with is West Kilbride Primary School in the South West of Scotland. It has been a great learning opportunity for these diverse groups of children to share and understand each other’s cultures.
Margie taught across 9 schools in Aberdeenshire, Scotland and we aim to collaborate, in a similar way, with these schools, as well as many others, to raise awareness and educate children in a culture world’s apart from their own.
Exchanging Cultures
The children at both schools wrote letters and drew pictures of their communities and ways of life. Sally visited the two schools to talk with the children about the differing countries, lives and cultures. Both groups of children were very eager to learn about the other.
2022, the year our first school collaboration started, was the year of ‘Scottish Stories’ and the creative communications, drawings, stories and letters, which were produced through the project with West Kilbride Primary School formed a community exhibition.
Splashy Stomp Fundraiser
Following the learnings, the children of West Kilbride Primary school were keen to raise money for their partner school in Tanzania. Over 300 children from West Kilbride Primary School did a sponsored ‘Splashy Stomp’ in the glens of West Kilbride in march 2023 and together with the local community raised over £3500 for Margie’s Foundation. This money will go towards building the first ever Margie’s Library. As part of the community fundraising effort the local book shop also gifted, as part of World Book Day, a book for every child in Lembapuli Primary school. This book will be the first they have ever owned. Margie will be smiling!
