Khurram Joining the Pennies with Purpose

Khurram gladly accepted to join the Pennies with Purpose. He will be a great asset in this movement. He will be the member who contribute to internationalizing this social movement and embracing the pan Asia in terms of its membership composition. He has a sufficient field work experience including fundraising and public relations in various organizations. He already donated his coins including some Pakistan rupees.

Visiting the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank

I visited the Greater Pittsbrugh Food Bank Center. I conducted an interview Lisa and Ann there. I looked around the center and listened to what they have been doing and what is the influence of this financial crisis on their work. It was a staggeringly precious experience for me to look into the Pittsburgh local community. I appreciate their efforts for providing basic needs to the communities. Lisa gave me some informatioin of a public school that needs help and support. Jessy, a public school teacher at the Duquesne School District, has been committed to helping students and working together with Food Bank. She has been calling for supports for kids in her school. Jessy would be a proper person Pennies With Purpose contacts and finds a way PWP puts the efforts into practice and makes its plan be implemented.

Meetng with Pittsburgh Public School Students

I visited Wilkinsburgh Middle/High School as a guest speaker. I gave two presentations on Korea to Wilkinsburgh Middle/High School students. This is organized by World Affairs Council, a nonprofit organizatins that is involving in helping public schools get exposed to global and community issues. It was an interesting experience for me to meet Pittsbugh public school students. Wilkinsburgh is one of low income neighbrhoods that are going through an econoimc downturn for a long period time. It was an intriguing moment through which I got some sense of Pittsburgh public school system in the field.

Project planning

Members of Pennies with Purpose (PP) will collect pennies (coins).
The first goal is to collect 10,000 pennies. The starting board members will decide through discussion to whom the PP will donate pencils and notebook, once this goal is achieved. We also look forward to the request information on whom the PP should help as well as pennies for helping children's schooling.

Starting members

Six members including Keunsoo Jeong (Kevin), Jongmyoung Lee, Heeseung Lee, Vivian Park, Sung-geun Kim (Simon), and Bok-gyo Jeong (Jonathan) have agreed that they will sow the seeds for this small but valuable social movement.

Members have agreed that they will take charge of the following:

Kevin: planning, consulting
Simon: planning, consulting
Jongmyoung: public relations, online community development
Jonathan: temporary representative
Heeseung, Vivian: supporting team, consulting

Mission- Pennies with Purpose (PP)

This blog aims to help children unable to affordable to costs for studying at school. Pennies with Purpose will collect pennies to donate pencils and notebooks for needy children.