#DayoftheGirl Success Stories from CEI, Sri Lanka: Jeyaruth

CEI Sri Lanka photo: During lessons, Pussellawa School

This Day of the Girl Success Story comes from Jeyaruth, in her own words:

I’m Miss T. Jeyaruth Krishnaveni and I benefited from the project in Pussellawa. There are five members in my family including myself. My father is a day worker and my mother is a housewife. I have a brother and a sister. I’m the eldest in my family. My brother and sister also studied in the project and now they are also in a good position. My sister is a teacher and my brother works in a bank. I’m a science teacher. We live in Wahugapitiya.

I studied in this project for nearly five years. I learned a lot through this project. I improved my English knowledge and now I’m continuing my higher studies (B.Sc.) in English Medium in an Open University. The knowledge I gained from this project is very useful to my life and my studies. My school fees were paid for me and it was a great help to me to improve other subjects as well as English.

My aim is to be a good teacher and to transfer my knowledge to all of my students. I like to help all the poor children as much as possible. I like to help the AED project (CEI in Sri Lanka)  with pleasure. Thank you for giving me this unmeasureable, valuable education.

Yours faithfully, Jeyaruth

CEI Sri Lanka photo: Children playing at the Pussellawa School

Women with Initiative: Agnes Apea

Agnes Apea, an inspirational voice from Uganda. She was able to get an education and come back to strengthen her community with the organization that she founded in 2009, The Hope Development Initiative.

Even though she made this choice and knew the importance of education she continued to face obstacles. “Everyone just wanted me to marry, not listening that I wanted to go to school. No one believed that I could go to school and that it would be worthwhile.”

internationalwomensinitiative:

You have no doubt heard of Joseph Kony; the conflict in Northern Uganda and the lives which have been impacted has been the subject of many debates in the last year. Yet this conflict has been raging for over twenty years and this was not the beginning of the struggle. Agnes Apea was born into the reign of Idi Amin – she grew up with conflict. She saw people being forced to flee their homes tolive in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps. Their faces wore their hardship…They had given up.

Agnes, however, never gave up. She notes, “I grew up in this environment that really discriminated against women. It was a patriarchal society where girls have no value except for what you can get when married off.” Yet, from a young age she wanted to show everyone that being a woman does not make you less; that she could have a future as more than a wife.

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Happy June, Everyone! Wasn’t it just May? Man, time is flying by here at CEI. We hope that you all had a delightful spring because here comes summer! It’s time to kick back, relax, and soak up the sun. Enjoy every second and have some fun! - Your Friendly CEI Development Team (photo credit: Q.Photo - Students Playing at Kalapuwa Sri Leadership Academy, Sri Lanka)
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Happy June, Everyone!

Wasn’t it just May? Man, time is flying by here at CEI. We hope that you all had a delightful spring because here comes summer! It’s time to kick back, relax, and soak up the sun. Enjoy every second and have some fun!

- Your Friendly CEI Development Team

(photo credit: Q.Photo - Students Playing at Kalapuwa Sri Leadership Academy, Sri Lanka)

It’s #FundraisingFriday!

First, the CEI team & I want to thank the 20 fabulous CEI fans for contributing to our Sustainable Fish Farm Project on our quest to become a permanent part of the GlobalGiving community and more importantly, empowering kids through this vital vocational opportunity.

As we are entering the last 10 days of this GlobalGiving Challenge, we need another 29 CEI fans to help reach our goal! We are very close to the monetary goal of raising $4K for this project because The Rasmussen Family Foundation is matching every gift dollar for dollar. A gift of just $10 will make a difference. As Lakmal, a CEI Leadership Academy student & project participant says,

“We are grateful to be able to have a program where we are trained to manage the farm and in the process become self-sustainable…I hope that our community will be benefitted by our success…”


Here’s what you can do right now:

  • Make a small gift now to CEI’s Vocational Fish Farm Project at http://goto.gg/10260
  • Call or email at least five friends and ask them to donate
  • Post a link to our project page http://goto.gg/10260 on your Facebook, Twitter or LinkdIn page asking your friends to donate and share with their network.

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Education is the great equalizer. We hold this truth to be self evident. 

Children around the globe have the ability to rise from poverty and become leaders of business, trade, and politics but only if they are given the opportunity and support to do so. This may seem impossible in the face of conflict, disaster, and poor development. Despite the obstacles, we believe that education provides hope and empowerment.

At Child Empowerment International, our mission is to challenge the cycle of poverty in areas of civil unrest through empowering and educating marginalized children. It is a mission; it is a call to action; and it is inspiration.

We are Child Empowerment. We give children opportunities, education, and hope. Won’t you join us?

To learn more, check us out at childempowerment.org