Build a School in African for $12,500

It doesn’t have to cost the $40 million that Oprah Winfrey spent.

Illinois North Shore resident Lynn Cole heads up RISE International. She can show you how you can build a school in Angola for $12,500.

Actually, the residents there do the construction. You provide the financing.

Groups associated with high schools like New Trier, Wheeling and West Chicago, plus churches have done the heavy lifting to raise the $1.3 million spent so far.

When the Angolan school year begins in February, 150 schools built with help from RISE will be staffed with Angolan Ministry of Education teachers.

Naturally, I had to ask what could be done with $40 million. Cole’s answer:

"With $40 million we could do amazing things.
"I think we could change a country with $40 million."

Cole and her husband Andrew were inspired when they went to Angola, her husband’s birth place, as part of their 25th wedding anniversary celebration."

And in case the last name sounds familiar, Andrew’s father is Moody Bible Institute’s Pastor Donald Cole.

You can let her tell the story and see lots more pictures by going to McHenry County Blog.