Lanera's foundation helps poor children in Africa

Jaymie Lanera, a 2002 John Jay High School graduate, recently returned from a trip to Ghana in West Africa, where she spent two months building a learning center/library at a school in a small village, with her colleague Kristin Collins and their newly founded non-profit organization, the Elisa Lanera Foundation.

The two started planning to build this organization in 2008, became a business entity in 2009, and spent the last two years raising funds to carry out the plans for the construction of the learning center. While in Ghana, they spent time overseeing the entirety of the project, which is now 95% complete, and volunteer teaching first through sixth grade in the school.

The Elisa Lanera Foundation focuses on education and HIV/AIDS awareness in the poor townships and underdeveloped communities in Africa, and has near future plans to establish itself building schools and creating curricula in South Africa.

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Lanera's foundation helps poor children in Africa

The Elisa Lanera Foundation focuses on education and HIV/AIDS awareness in the poor townships and underdeveloped communities in Africa, and has near future plans to establish itself building schools and creating curricula in South Africa.



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