She's the First

She's the First is a non-profit organization that I joined this past May. There are about 8 other 8th graders that do this group with me and then our "leader" is our wonderful librarian Mrs. Miller. Mrs. Miller started this whole group by connecting with the CEO (Tammy Tibbetts) after winning the Connecting People Shorty Award this year. After that, Mrs. Miller and Tammy connected through Skype and Twitter and there were a couple of us that were interested in doing this and so we started it. After that a couple of other people joined with us and we started fundraising! What She's the First is, is its a organization that help girls in other countries get an education, so that they can be the first in their family to do what they want and get a job. So, what we do is we have fundraisers to earn money for the girl that we are sponsoring. She's the First*{Van Meter} has had a couple of different fundraisers, and we have raised over $1,200 in the past 6 months. It takes $1,000 to pay for 1 year of the girl that we are sponsorings tuition. We are now going to be sponsoring this girl for the last year of her high school year. Here is an animoto video that I made that shows all of the different schools/projects that She's the First sponsors: