Little World Community Organization (lwco.org) is a network of schools set up to help villagers in rural Pakistan learn to read, write and embroider. The students (mostly women) learn and then become teachers themselves, starting new schools in the area around Faisalabad in Pakistan.
When they heard about the floods, the students were anxious to help, although they didn't have very much themselves. Supporters in the U.S. help sell the embroidered squares made by the students and send the money to them.
The students chose to spend some of the money helping flood victims. This is what Aneel Boby, director of the schools, said in a recent e-mail:
I am sending some pics of the relief we are doing in flood affected area.
people are in so deep trouble.we are saving them and bringing them to safe places and giving them mediciens.
plzz remember us in ur prayers
we are using boats to save them and they are starving so much.
LWCO was founded by Greg Zaller of Nevada City, California. Greg visited Pakistan after the earthquake in 2005 and began to work with rural Pakistanis to help them better their lives and support themselves.
