Bumpe School's First Pen Pal Program

Several months ago a few students and faculty members of Vistamar School collaborated a simple pen pal program involving their freshman with the freshman students of Bumpe High School. Under the direction of humanities and economics teacher, Blair Bowman, the students of Vistamar wrote their first drafts in October of 2009.

After a few weeks of correspondence with The Foundation office, it was agreed that the safest and speediest way to send the letters was through email. Final letters were then scanned and sent to the attention of Joe Kposowa in Bumpe the beginning of December 2009.

Last week, The Foundation office was overjoyed to have received the first wave of pen pal letters from Bumpe students to Vistamar students. The first circle of the pen pal program was complete.

We are grateful to the students and faculty of Vistamar who initiated this idea. We are also very excited for the freshman students of Bumpe High School. Pen pals are typically exciting for students of any academic level, but in Sierra Leone, where war had been prevalent for so long, an outreach like the pen pal effort Vistamar had put into place is a special treat to our students in Africa.

We encourage more schools to become involved with Bumpe High School and hope this will be a staging point for other students across the nation to share a correspondence with a student in Africa.

For information about how to get your school involved, please contact the Foundation office at (562) 432-7019. We will be happy to share and receive any ideas you may have.

The Angel Rock Project Book of the Month - A Princess Found!

Check out "A Princess Found" as The Angel Rock Project book of the month! The Angel Rock Project is an online e-village promoting volunteerism, social responsibility and sustainable change. The founder and director is Malaak Compton-Rock, wife of actor and comedian, Chris Rock.

A Princess Found Book Signing in the Long Beach Area!

Friends of Signal Hill will host "A Princess Found" book signing in Signal Hill, California this coming Monday, January 25th at 7:00pm. Below are the details.

Monday, January 25, 2010
7:00 p.m.
The Signal Hill Community Center
1780 E Hill Street
Signal Hill, CA 90755
Call (562) 989-7323 for more information

Happy New Year from The Kposowa Foundation! May you all be blessed with good health and abundance at the start of this new and exciting decade.

The Kposowa Foundation is off to a fantastic start! Over the holidays we mailed out an "opportunity to give letter" and since then have been receiving donations on a weekly basis from all across the nation. No words can ever express the gratitude we feel when we receive a donation from a new or returning donor. Every donation, whether it is a large or small monetary contribution or an in-kind donation, makes such a tremendous impact to our organization and to the students of Bumpe High School. We can't thank you enough for your support!

The Foundation website has been updated with a new online donation processing system. For an easy, instant and secure transaction, you can donate directly to the Foundation by going to the "How You Can Help" tab on our website.

http://www.bumpefund.org/How2Help.html

Otherwise be on the lookout for these topics in the near future:

• A Princess Found booksigning in Long Beach, California
• Pen Pals from Vista Mar to Bumpe High School
• An update from Lena Cox as she makes her second shipment to Bumpe

We are thrilled to share that out of all the books published this year the School Library Journal has chosen A PRINCESS FOUND as one of the top eleven “Best Adult Books for High School Students”!