UTM’s College Panhellenic Council (CPC) intends to raise enough funds in the next four years to build a school in a Third World country for girls’ education through Circle of Sisterhood.
The five sororities at UTM will need to raise between $40,000-$47,000 in order to sponsor a school in one of the following countries: Haiti, Nicaragua, Nepal, Senegal, Mali, Malawi or Burkina Faso.
The UTM Panhellenic community is among the 264 campus sorority communities involved in The Circle of Sisterhood, and adopted the organization as the official philanthropy in 2017.
The CPC also hosts a “Panhellenic Pride” week every year in the spring semester, in which all of the proceeds benefit the 501c3 nonprofit.
Once the sufficient funds have been raised for a school, members of the sororities will be eligible to travel to the selected country to assist with the building of the school. The mission team will serve the community with basic medical supplies, water and food.
The usage of sorority women is important to Circle of Sisterhood because scholarship is the cornerstone of all 27 National Panhellenic Conference sororities.
The mission of Circle of Sisterhood is to remove barriers to education for girls and women facing poverty and oppression worldwide.
Specifically, the official website lists the following barriers: affordability of tuition, boarding, uniforms, etc.; child marriage; inadequate infrastructure of school buildings; lack of programs encouraging parent and community participation; lack of school supplies; inadequate menstrual and hygiene education; sex trafficking; and untrained or underfunded teachers.
In nine years, the Circle of Sisterhood Foundation has had an impact in 24 countries and has funded over 25 schools on four continents, according the Circle of Sisterhood website.
To find out more information about Circle of Sisterhood, visit circleofsisterhood.org, or contact the College Panhellenic Council’s Vice President of Philanthropy via @utmartinpanhellenic on Instagram or Facebook.
The women pictured above represent Alpha Omicron Pi, Chi Omega, Alpha Delta Pi and Zeta Tau Alpha. | Photo credit/ University Relations
