Following the successful launch of the Eileen Yee Educational Fund last month, we are celebrating Eileen’s birth anniversary in September by kickstarting an annual event called The Eileen Yee Educational Fund Pink Week. From 23-27 September, we will organise a plethora of activities aimed at highlighting the fund, whose proceeds have already started impacting disadvantaged communities in Vietnam.
To build on issues like access to education, which Eileen was so passionate about, we have devoted this month to raising awareness about how high school students in the communities we support often walk up to 4 km every day just to get to and from school. Apart from being an obvious safety hazard, this deters many students from attending school regularly and even leads to some of them dropping out altogether.
So, this month, the Discova staff are literally walking in the shoes of these students not just to relate to their daily experience but to also rally support and raise funds to change lives. Titled Walk 101, each team member will be walking 4 km daily to reach 101 km at the end of the month and raise money through individual fundraising pages that they share with their connections and on social media.
