How You Can Help Build the Beauty School

We provide various ways for people to get involved in creative fundraising, technical support, etc.
Organize a fundraising event at your home, local salon, or school. Tell us what interests you and we can help you make it happen.

• Let us know about relevant grant opportunities.
• Collect donated materials such as beauty magazines, books, and equipment
• Introduce us to corporate sponsors and journalists.
• Tell others about the Rwanda Beauty School.

For salon industry professionals:

Hold an event at your salon to raise money for the School. We make it easy. Bpeace has a free toolkit for salon owners who want to become a charter fundraiser and help launch the Rwanda beauty vocational school. The electronic tool kit includes 17 ideas on how to generate salon traffic and deepen customer relationships and raise funds for the beauty school; two sample press releases to customize and send to local press to announce the event, and to later report the results; a sample radio promotion to tie-in a local station; photos of Jeanne and Sylvie, the founding partners; 11 x 17 inch color posters of Jeanne and Sylvie and their story to print out and post in your salon; tax-deductible receipts to give to customers for their contributions; a simple 5-step checklist to make your salon fundraising event a success. Additionally, once you sign-up as a charter fundraiser, Bpeace will mail you a DVD with short videos on the beauty school project and will customize any of its materials with your logo.

Travel to Rwanda as guest lecturers and traveling mentors.

What We Need Financially:

Start-up capital to open the school in January 2009: $100,000. Funding is needed NOW for classroom and salon equipment, supplies, computers, and curriculum translation.

24 months’ operating funds to provide stability: $60,000 per year. Bpeace is raising funds to ensure the school has a foundation to build a self-sufficient model within three years.

Scholarship money for at-risk youth who need a future: $10,000. The Beauty School of Rwanda Scholarship Fund is being established to support those students unable to pay tuition.

For more details on any of the above, email bbylenga@outlawconsulting.com or call Barbara Bylenga at 415-541-9300.