'The Students Were Dancing in the Classroom'

Longitude, featured program in May, is already seeing results from DFW's donation, as this thank you letter attests:

On behalf of the women of the PROFESA Academy I want to thank you for your incredible fundraising efforts these past two months.  The check that we received in the mail this week was awesome.  I have no better word to describe it.

I know that you are already aware of the uniqueness of your grants, but I'm not sure if you are aware of the true gift that you are giving to small organizations like Longitude as we constantly struggle to stretch our donation dollars.  Applying for a $15,000 grant and then receiving close to $25,000 is mind blowing for a small non-profit like ourselves.  It allows us to finally tackle some of the programmatic requests that don't seem like a lot when they come in from Ghana, but it never seems that we have the extra money to get them done.

For example, for the past year and a half the PROFESA students have been writing and taking notes in class on their laps because Longitude has not had the extra capital to pay for actual desks and chairs for the classrooms.  An entire classroom can be outfitted with desks and chairs for as little as $1,225, but we have struggled to find that money until now.  I sent the extra money with this months budget to the school on Monday and Meshach informed me that the students were dancing in the classroom upon hearing that they would finally get their desks.

Thank you so much for all you do!
Shawn Rubin
www.golongitude.org