Thursday, October 14, 2010

PHILANTHROPY

Philanthropy, comes from the Greek work "Φιλανθρωπία".
Wictionary gives the following etymology for the word: From Late Latin philanthropia, from Ancient Greek. The prefixe phil- comes from ο φίλος ("ho philos") - the friend from the verb φίλω ("philo") which means to like oρ to love. -anthropy comes from the noun ανθρώπος ("anthropos") the man, the human.









our bake sale in action, learning
about Philanthropy, first hand!!!
  • introducing students to the great concept of PHILANTHROPY.
  • contributions to a bake sale for the cause " For the cure" and Susan G Komen
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  • learning about Unicef and deciding to participate on a"trick or treat for Unicef"
  • making a corner for Unicef in the classroom and inform the rest of the school community about our actions
  • reading the books "three cups of tea" and Listen to the wind" 
  • learning about  the nonprofit Central Asia Institute www.ikat.org , and the foundation  "Pennies For Peace" www.penniesforpeace.org
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