News & Events
July, 2010SOL in the News!
Seeds of Learning has been featured recently on national television in El Salvador (see the video and full report here) and in the news at home (see Index-Tribune article here)!
July 23, 2010SAVE THE DATE: Friday, July 23 - Theatre Performance
Please be sure to mark your calendars for Friday July 23. Sonoma Stage Works presents The Last Hurrah of Horace Packard, at the new Andrews Hall Theatre in Sonoma. Tickets include a wine and cheese reception (7 PM) and the performance (8 PM) is a benefit for Seeds of Learning. For tickets, please call 939 0471 or click here.
August 7 - 182010 Work Group Schedule
We still have room in our Aug 7 - 18, 2010 Work Group to El Salvador! More...
Esperanza - Bilingual children's book - NOTE CARDS NOW AVAILABLE!
Sonoma author Sara Donnelly and illustrator Sally Carnahan Lewis have created a heartwarming, bilingual children's story. Esperanza and the New School; Esperanza y la Nueva Escuela grew out of Donnelly's years of service in Seeds of Learning.
A package of six beautiful note cards with illustrations selected from Esperanza and the New School are now available. Proceeds from the sale of note cards are generously donated to Seeds of Learning. Each packet of 6 cards + envelopes is $10. Prices include handling and mailing costs.
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October 16, 2010Save the Date
SOL's Annual Event in Sonoma will be Saturday, October 16. Please mark your calendars!
October 2, 2010Save the Date
All Work Group Alumni Reunion
Women's Giving Tree Benefits SOL
Seeds of Learning has been honored as this month's Featured NGO at Women's Giving Tree!
Matt Schekel Memorial Scholarship
The Matt Schekel Memorial Scholarship Fund was created early in 2002 by Marcia and Kurt Schekel in memory of their son Matthew. Seeds of Learning, with Matt’s family and friends, wishes to bestow this memorial scholarship on youth who have financial need and who exhibit compassion, kindness and a strong commitment to serve their global community as Seeds of Learning work group volunteers.
Matthew Schekel was born in Colorado in 1970. He grew up in Washington State. When he was in the second grade, a 7-year-old Vietnamese girl was added to his class after the start of the school year. She spoke no English. Matt befriended her. He introduced her to others and made sure she was not left alone on the playground.
This was the way Matt continued to live his life with kindness, openness and curiosity for the world. He was a reader, a big movie and TV fan, and a music lover. He had a great sense of humor and an open heart. He accepted all people and was especially interested in those who struggled in our society.
Matt died in 1998 when his bicycle and a truck met at an intersection in Portland, Oregon. He was 27 and a student at the Northwest Film School in Portland.
If Matt were here today, he would support Seeds of Learning programs enthusiastically. We would like to affirm his participation through this scholarship, enabling others to be as active as Matt might have been in building schools and relationships in Central America.
— Marcia and Kurt Schekel
