Hopefully by now you have spent some time learning about Students Helping Students, exploring Nepal, and discovering ways to take action. Now it's time to find out how to take the steps toward getting involved!

1. Read through the Frequently Asked Questions. We receive many similar questions from all sorts of people and have tried to answer the most popular questions.
2. Explore the potential Fundraising Ideas with your class, school or club. Try to raise awareness within your school or organization so that you can get more people interested. Please see our lesson plan Moving Mountains: Big Ideas Start Small to see how a few people can create a landslide of action. Another great resource is our lesson plan on Communities Matter, in which we dsicuss how schools and clubs can discover their own strengths and talents. Then decide what type of project you want to do.
3. Set a fundraising goal for your school or club. Your goal can be a few hundred dollars to contribute to a program or several thousand dollars to establish a library or sponsor a new book. Click here to find out more about sponsoring a program and how much it costs. [D - link to sponsoring books and libraries page]
4. Appoint a Students Helping Students program leader or committee. This person / people will be the key contact person with Room to Read.
5. Once you have a goal and an idea, let us know about it. You can write to us at shs@roomtoread.org. We will prepare internally for your fundraiser and answer any questions you might have
6. When you raise funds, please collect all individual donations and issue one or two large checks to Room to Read. We have many schools participating and unfortunately do not have the resources to process hundreds of small checks. Please help us make this program work for everyone and ensure that 90% of your donations go to children in need instead of processing and paperwork.
7. If you are raising money for a specific project, be sure to note it on the check(s) so that we can record it accordingly.
8. Feel free to send in pictures and/or summaries of your activities. If the idea is creative and new, we will be sure to let everyone know about it. We might even ask you to help us put a case study together so that other Students Helping Students participants can learn from your success.
9. Visit the Students Helping Students website often! We will keep you updated on the results of your work and how we are educating children in the developing world.
10. If you have comments or suggestions about the website or program, please feel free to email us at shs@roomtoread.org.