I’m kicking off a Giving Tuesday team fundraiser for the Young Living Academy, and this one hits me right in the heart.

I’ve sponsored a student named Josef since 2013 through my Young Living income, and I recently got to meet him and his family in Ecuador. Seeing the Academy in person changed everything for me. It’s not just a school. It’s a lifeline. It’s a place where kids who would normally drop out by eighth grade are graduating, going to college, and building a future their parents only dreamed of.

The Academy now serves 350 students from pre-K through 12th grade with incredible programs like music, drama, sports, English and computer classes, plus hands-on agricultural education right on the Ecuador farm. These kids show up. They work hard. And every single senior has graduated since the Academy opened.

This is why I’m asking our team to come together. A $1000 total donation gets our team name on a brick at the Academy, but more importantly, it changes real lives!

If you feel led to give, even a little, it adds up fast. And it means more than you know.

Let’s do something beautiful together for Giving Tuesday.