It is difficult to describe how ridiculously happy we are for Livingstone Kegode, Fredrick Manzugu, and the children of Kimilili as we see the three beautiful new classrooms of the HIP Academy. In October 2016, we heard that if we couldn’t raise over $16,000, up to 60 students would no longer be able to attend school in Kimilili, Kenya.
Read MoreThe Open World Cause is proud to unveil our 2017 Financial Summary. In November 2016, we made a goal to donate $6,000 and be the tax deductible handler for a $14,000 campaign to save the HIPAfrica school in Kenya. In addition, we pledged to donate $6,000 to the TriKa School in Nepal….
Read MoreWe're very happy to share with you our very first newsletter to help detail all that has occurred with our organization in the past few months! This was an idea conjured during a video call by Devin Canfield and Abby Schletzbaum, serving as directors of our organization…
Read MoreToday we’d like to recognize our university volunteers, Devin Canfield and Mauryn Kennedy, for spreading the word about Open World Cause at the University of Kansas. Open World Cause established itself as a student organization in the Fall of 2012 on KU’s…
Read MoreThis youtube playlist captures Ben Honeycutt’s daily video diaries he took while traveling to the HIPAfrica school in Kenya!
Read MoreWe want to send a shout out to Christina and Amelia, two sixth graders at Monument Academy in Monument, Colorado. Together they started the One Step to Hope initiative, a schoolwide effort to collect 1,000 shoes to help the students of HIPAfrica. Together they took the initiative to reach out to the elementary…
Read MoreThe Open World Cause is proud to announce our 2017 initiative in Kenya. We are partnered with an educational pioneer named Livingstone Kegode, and we could not be more proud to be working with such an outstanding individual. Livingstone’s work in Kenya can be read in….
Read MoreAs of today, Phase 2 construction has been completed at the Tri Ka school. Phase 2’s construction was an initiative funded by the Open World Cause from August 2015 to October 2016.
This announcement completes a 3 year fundraising campaign with the Tri Ka school….
Open World Cause is proud to release this report with the culmination of the successful Phase 2 of our mission; to help fundraise the construction of a new school in Nepal. After years of supporting the school, the team, donors, and the staff of Tri KA all looked forward to this trip and legitimizing our partnership and forming deeper connections.
Read More“Every moment of discovery bestows its own point of reflection; a persistent need to continuously remain aware.”
Read More“They do not eat the same times we do in the United States, though the family we are staying with very kindly altered our eating times to feel more familiar.”
Read More“The way they welcome the world for all its hardship and wonder has flipped the way I wish to live.”
Read MoreThe unique taste and process for tea making initiated an enthusiasm to learn and see how the tea is made!
Read More“With reckless abandon I leapt into the rain, and let the downpour wash me away.”
Read More“From the colors of their clothing to the vibrancy of their voices and the Nepali language, I am quickly falling in love with Nepal’s people just as much as the beauty of the country and the intrigue of their culture.”
Read MoreThis an official announcement from OWC and GoFundMe launch to travel to Nepal in the summer of 2015!
Read MoreWe are DELIGHTED to announce that thanks to incredible partnerships with Project Purus, Edukado and the Namri organizations, your unbelievable support, and the unwavering vision and dedication of Panthy Govinda, construction on the newly named Tri Ka school has begun.
Read MoreWe are thrilled to introduce new team members and some very important news regarding progress on acquiring new land for the SAV School! [2017 Author’s Note]: This down-payment would help purchase the first buildings for the TriKa school in Narayanpur (opened April, 2015).
Read MoreOWC want to take a moment and extend a BIG thank you to Shelby Lemon, the creator of each of the incredible designs for our Resolutions campaign. Shelby and Ben Honeycutt met at an college orientation for incoming freshman at KU in July 2011. Despite being told they’d never see each other again…
Read MoreOne of our proudest moments this year came from our new partnership with Project Purus and founding members Garrett Wilkinson and Aaron Brzowski.
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