Projects
Schools for Africa
Schools for Africa remains an international project in 2012. In September 2009, an additional agreement was signed which extended Schools for Africa into 11 countries including Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, Ethiopia and Madagascar. In these countries as well as the new additions, UNICEF is working with governments, local authorities, communities and other partners to:
- Build and rehabilitate 1,000 schools
- Create schools that offer a safe and protective environment where children can learn
and play; - Provide access to clean water and separate sanitation facilities for boys and girls in
those schools; - Supply exercise books, pens, proper furniture and other school and sports materials;
- Train 100,000 teachers to provide children with quality education and basic life skills;
- Educate children about proper hygiene and HIV prevention; this knowledge is passed on to siblings, parents, and the community at large
Supporting Early-Educators (SEE)
To share our vision, Leading Women Educators Impacting Education Worldwide, and strengthen our Society, the Educational Excellence Committee established Supporting Early-career Educators (SEE) as its second international project during the 2012 International Convention in New York City.
Education is a challenging career, and retaining quality teachers is an issue worldwide. Members of Delta Kappa Gamma feel a duty to mentor new educators as they adjust to their new occupation. SEE encourages members/chapters to be creative in support of early-career educators with a variety of strategies
• giving support by phone calls and visits,
• helping with lesson plans and bulletin board ideas,
• offering advice on classroom management and parent-teacher relations; and
• providing support in appropriate and practical ways.
Alpha Kappa Chapter is mentoring an early educator and has developed a plan to aid/encourage her during this biennium.
Education is a challenging career, and retaining quality teachers is an issue worldwide. Members of Delta Kappa Gamma feel a duty to mentor new educators as they adjust to their new occupation. SEE encourages members/chapters to be creative in support of early-career educators with a variety of strategies
• giving support by phone calls and visits,
• helping with lesson plans and bulletin board ideas,
• offering advice on classroom management and parent-teacher relations; and
• providing support in appropriate and practical ways.
Alpha Kappa Chapter is mentoring an early educator and has developed a plan to aid/encourage her during this biennium.
Alpha Kappa Chapter Projects
Christian Women's Job Corp
CWJC offers free job skills and life skills training services to adult women of all races, religions, creeds and socio-economic status and provides resources for educational and employment needs. Their motto is a hand up not a hand out. Alpha Kappa Chapter donates office supplies and business attire to aid these women as they prepare to enter the current job market.
Operation Christmas Child
Though not a true DKG project, Operation Christmas Child is an endearing project that reaches impoverished children in remote areas of the world with simple shoe boxes filled with small toys and always with basic school supplies. Alpha Kappa Chapter will spend time at a fall meeting to prepare/fill 10 shoe boxes for this amazing program.
Starkville Reads
Alpha Kappa Chapter donates new and gently used books and magazine to the Starkville Reads organization which promotes literacy throughout the community.
Scholarships and Grant In Aid
The annual Book Sale, Souper Supper (or luncheon) and Silent Auction are means by which the chapter raises money for scholarships to young ladies studying education at Mississippi State University or to help chapter members returning to college for graduate studies.