MYP Personal Project - Creating a Philanthropic Organization
Part A: Planning
My learning goal:
My inspiration for my project was a set of progressive voiced events, intertwined with my own values and
opinions. I grew up in an Algerian household, raised by two immigrant parents. Some of my simplest yet fondest
memories were listening to my dad speak of his childhood experiences and adventures. Two things always seemed to
surprise me when I listened to my dad’s stories: the tight knit community that is Algeria and the innovations my dad
made due to the lack of resources he had. One day, I had complained about my academic workload and my father shared
to me a story about how he didn’t have all the textbooks he needed to even complete the work. This grounded me when
it came to that academic stress I had been feeling but, however, spiked a certain mtoivation to help individuals like my
father and I to never go through these same trials. Nevertheless, I was told I could never truly understand and appreciate
my father and mother’s past as I will never acquire a firsthand account of what they had gone through. Fast-forward to
June 2022, I was presented the Personal Project and after listening to how Richard Turere helped his people fight off
lion attacks, I chose that I would try and help my home country and similar third world countries for my project. When
I thought about how I could help, I remembered my dad’s story about how hard it was to get even one book. Then, I
remembered how much I love to read. My favourite books were always the adaptations of Greek myths such as the
“Heroes of Olympus”. I have always believed that books are important tools towards strengthening the mind and chose
that I would improve the amount of books children like me had in third world countries. I saw this not only as a way to
finally help my home country and by donating a key part of my childhood, but also a way to finally fully understand the
hardships my parents endured through the firsthand experience I would attain. When creating my learning goals, I
wanted to make sure they were challenging and that achieving these goals would translate into other academic and
career skills that were not only applicable to this project, but other endeavours. The learning goals are the following:
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Research and understand the scarcity of literary resources in third world countries and how they affect youth
development
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Create and promote a philanthropic organization to raise awareness on this issue and to raise books to donate
to a third world country
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My Product/Outcome:
This personal project served as the first of many projects my philanthropic organization would tackle in the
coming years. At first, I was not sure what third world country my organization would support in its first project. I
treaded lightly in the Middle East as well as in West and East Africa. However, I soon realized that the only fitting
option for the very first nation my organization would offer literary ressources to, had to be my home country where my
parents grew up in, Algeria. I had grown up listening to countless stories and it was only time I acquire some firsthand
experience. This philanthropic action my organization carried out would serve as the bulk of my personal project,
accompanied by its promotion to raise awareness on the global issue of scarce literary resources in third world countries.
This connects back to my learning goal as I am tasked with the responsibility of garnering knowledge about this global
issue. Which then translates back to the activities my organization will encompass, being the awareness-raising of the
issue around communities and dispatching of the books to the third world country.
I hoped that this project would be able to unite and spark a certain vivacity in communities around Toronto
with this common cause. In addition, I had anticipated that this project would offer myself as an individual an
unparalleled work, emotional and academic experience. These activities would better my understanding of geography,
computer science, language, finance, time-management and more.
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Plan for achieving the Product-Outcome:
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Part B: Applying Skills
Archiving the learning goal - ATL Skill 1: Research
In order to have achieved my learning goal of researching and understanding the scarcity of literary resources in
third world countries and their effects, I had to do a considerable amount of research. This research gathered the global
context, long-term and short-term effects, specific evidence and other details of this issue that reinforce the idea it is a
hindrance towards child development and education. Adding onto that, I had to learn and understand how to create an
organization and rally up a community to fight for a common cause. This is by no means an easy task. I had to, quite
frankly, research methods that shed light on how to win over the hearts of people and push them to engage for a
philanthropic cause. Moreover, I had to research how to create the organization itself, as it did embody a couple very
difficult and technical steps such as sending the books overseas and gathering effectively the donated books. Before
having started my research, I was pushed to really take time to identify and distinguish each main idea I should
understand in order to guarantee my erudition, which would later translate to the success of the product of my Personal
Project. After having outlined these main subtopics or milestones of my research, I conceived a research plan:
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Excerpt from my Research plan
The plan was essential towards the success of my research as it outlined all the different aspects I had to cover
and understand which allowed me to find useful sources easier as I knew what information I was looking for in each of
these sources. I had to look at a variety of sources that differed in nature. In what concerns the first aspect of my
research, understanding the global issue and its effects, I used both primary and secondary sources that offered me
factual information such as statistics and scientific reasoning behind the psychological effects of not reading during
youth. For the second aspect of my research, understanding how to create a charity, I would gather research from
interviews, blogs and social media posts from other philanthropists who have experience taking part in large scaled
philanthropic activities. Finally, for the third main subtopic of my research, understanding how to dispatch the donated
books to the country overseas, I had to collect my information by visiting shipping companies (such as UPS Canada)
website and asking individuals who might understand the concept a bit more. These individuals were my geography
teacher, Mr. De Becker and close relatives who have already shipped goods to Algeria before. I evaluated my sources to
judge their relevance and pertinence towards understanding the question or concept at hand. In addition, it shed light
on their reliability. When performing my research, I diversified the types of sources and authors from whom I gathered
information from, especially in my less factual research questions. For instance, when I wanted to figure out how to
encourage people to donate to the cause or induce change in society, I took into consideration the testimonies of
different philanthropists, some older, some younger. This gave me the best of both worlds. This helped me achieve my
learning goal. One source in particular I found really interesting when researching how to successfully create my
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philanthropist organization was Michelle Purl’s TedTalk, “The Business of Charity”. She was one of my more
experienced authors seeing as she has worked with nonprofits for over 20 years (TED).
Applying skills to create a product - ATL Skill 2: Thinking Skills (Critical and Creative Thinking)
After I had first gone over how I would collect all the books for the charitable cause, I soon realized how
challenging it would be to actually execute the philanthropic action (garnering and dispatching books to Algeria). I
divided this project into two main milestones:
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Gathering all the donated books from external parties (Donators, institutions, etc..)
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Sending the gathered books to the third world country (Algeria).
Upon reflection, I realized that both of the two main components of my personal project upheld a number of hurdles I
had to overcome if I were to complete this project. Furthermore, I decided it would be imperative that I would manage
my time accordingly in order to turn in a complete product. Hence, I had to take a couple clever shortcuts that would
be sparked from creative and critical thinking.
Firstly, there were many creative adaptations to the first component of the project, being the amassing of the
books. I had always kept my quantity/type and promotion/awareness success criteria in mind when treating the possible
obstacles my project could entail. The main problem that came to mind was simply the fact I might not be able to
collect a sufficient amount of books. I had realized that the entire success of my project rests on the community’s and
donor’s willingness to cooperate and engage with the cause. I had accepted the fact that there was a chance an
engagement of that nature would completely derail the philanthropic project. Simply put, we would not have any
material to send overseas, meaning we could not complete the integral step that follows the gathering of books. From
this, I recognized that it was imperative I made sure the project convenes to the donors and encourages them as much as
possible to donate by eliminating any practical inconveniences. After taking into consideration the setback, I chose to
conceive a list of possible excuses or impracticalities the donor may have that would push them to not engage with the
project and donate any ressources. I called this “The Aloof List”. I made sure that any excuse on this list would be met
with a solution somewhere along the creation of our product. This answers in part the success criteria of the customer. I
had divided this list into 3 sections or types of excuses the donors could have: privacy and security, understanding and
culture, and practicality. This excuses list or “Aloof List” would serve as a map of all the hurdles I had to overcome:
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For what concerns the practical excuses, I realized that the main issue at hand was the fact that no donor would like to
go out of their way to spend a considerable amount of time just to make one small donation. It was clear that not
everyone had the time to go far away to donate the books in the donation box. In addition, it was likely the donor would
not be bothered to spend too much of their time to understand the donation process. Hence, I had to think of a
creative way to minimize the time and effort the donors spent engaging with the philanthropic activity in order to
encourage participation. Upon reflection, I conceived a new donation plan that was centralized around the posters and
website. The new plan I had created utilized QR codes on posters. I hoped that when a potential donor stumbled upon
my posters, they would be compelled to scan the QR code on the poster which would take them to my website. On this
website, there were all the details surrounding the operation I was running as well as where they could donate. Instead
of having only one donation box, I had a number of donation boxes spread around the GTA, with the goal of reducing
the journey for someone willing to donate as now they had a donation box closer to their home. In addition, there were
excuses that arose in what concerns the privacy and security of the donor. I realized some might fear the charity work is
a scam. There was not too much I could do to help this aspect seeing as I was a kid and this organization is not a
registered philanthropic group. However, I made sure to add as much background information on what concerns the
philanthropic organization and its intentions to minimize underminement. In addition, I feared that some might
choose not to donate if they thought the location to donate was not safe. From this, I made sure to only put donation
boxes in community centres and a couple religious establishments. I had to simply ask for permission and each
institution allowed me to install a donation box for free. This made sure the donor felt safe. Finally, I made sure there
were no possible excuses in what concerns donor understanding and culture. I made sure to add my research about the
global issue and effects. This aimed to establish to the potential donor that the cause the organization upheld was
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legitimate. In addition, I made sure to outline the inclusion criteria for the types of books the organization accepted. I
explained how the organization only accepts story books in French, Arabic and english. In addition, the organization
did accept academic workbooks that encompassed basic arithmetics, language, and literature, again, in French, Arabic
and english. Finally, I made sure that once the potential donor scans the QR and is taken into the website, they can
access a page that shows all the addresses for all the donation boxes around the GTA. I chose to use Wix.com to create
this website.
Screenshot of the “Where Can I donate?” section on my website (left) and my creation of the poster (right)
Secondly, there were a number of technical and logistical challenges the second component of the final product
entailed. In reality, the original plan to send the goods through carrier ships overseas to Algeria had a number of
underlying challenges and setbacks. To start, going back to time management, I had quickly realized that I would not
have time to ensure the books make it to Algeria in time. In reality, with more economical services, sending goods
through a carrier ship overseas to Algeria can take up to 2 months and I did not have that luxury of time. 2 months
would have embodied a third of the total time of my project and I would have been forced to crunch everything else
together and finish in advance. Unfortunately, with all my other academic and extracurricular work intertwining with
the creation of the product, there was simply no time. This would affect either my Type/Quantity and
Promotion/Awareness success criteria if I chose to go through with the original plan and send the goods through the
carrier ship or my Function and Customer success criteria if I didn’t send them through the carrier ship. Hence, I had to
show proof of creativity to create a new dispatching plan that would indeed answer all the success criterias, all while
respecting the relatively short time frame of shipment we have. Moving on, the cost of the shipment of the goods
through the carrier ship was also a massive concern, especially if we gathered over 50lbs worth of donated books. In
reality, carrier ships charge by weight and unit size and quantity. I knew that I would be shipping heavy goods in
probably 2 to 3 units of 20 X 20 X 10 boxes. The price to ship these resources would be well over 250 dollars, especially
if we would like to use the express service to spend less time and improve our chances at sending the books before the
deadline. This mainly affected the success criteria of cost as I had set out to keep the costs of keeping this project afloat at
under 250$ but this grew seemingly unlikely by the minute. I was tasked with either changing the success criteria
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specification or changing the shipment plan. I opted to choose to adapt the shipment plan and maintain the integrity of
the original success criterias. I had to conceive a discounted shipping plan.
By taking into consideration all these possible challenges the shipping of the goods could entail, I had shown
proof of creative thinking and created a new and improved shipping plan that adhered to all the success criterias and due
dates. Instead of shipping the books through carrier ships, I chose to piggyback on people travelling to Algeria. A
portion of the books would become part of their luggage and they would be responsible for bringing it to the school
Rabeh Belghwar. This was a very profitable adaptation since now, I didn’t have to pay for the fees that would come up if
I sent the books through a carrier ship. This helped me stay well below the budget. For this project, my uncle was
travelling to Algeria during the spring so thankfully, it was fairly simple to network with him and get him to carry the
books to algeria. He did however have to spend a bit more money on his plane ticket since his luggage weighed a lot
more. This was a very creative adaptation to my project that definitely had its perks.
Part C: Reflecting
Reflection: The impact of my project on my learning
Going into the project, I thought the greater part of the learning would have come to me in the starting stages
of the project. This phase of my project consisted of the research and planning of the steps that overarched the product
creation. Any learning would have been a product of this step as I had originally set out to follow this conceived plan,
based off of my initial research and learning, down to a notch. However, my initial research and learning was not
complete and I would argue the most insightful moments of my project came about during the hands-on experience of
the project. Simply put, this is due to the interactive nature and drawbacks I had to overcome along the project. It was
through these unfamiliar trials and tribulations I had to show proof of creativity and adapt to further develop my initial
learning, guaranteeing the success of my project and providing me with invaluable knowledge. In reality, I can divide the
impact of my project towards my learning into two main subheaders. The project had mainly impacted my white-collar
(refinement of academic skills, career skills, etc) and moral (improvement of my social, cultural, moral and emotional
understanding) learning:
Firstly, when considering the impact of my project on my white collar learning, it is clear that the action phase
of my project further developed and refined my academic and career skills. This translates back into my white-collar
opportunities, meaning my future higher studies and career opportunities. To start, the first skill this project had
impacted and helped me develop and learn was time-management. This was arguably the most valuable and important
takeaway of the project in what concerns the white-collar impact on my learning as it goes back to both the academic
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and vocational aspect. In addition, my ascertaining of time-management translates back into all my future endeavours
whether they be professional or personal. In reality, I had always struggled with time management throughout my
academic career, often lacking a clear work timeline which resulted in a lot of crunch time. However, the sheer
infeasibility of the project in a short period of time compelled me to hone new time-management techniques or
strategies in order to effectively and equally map out the feasibility of my project across the couple months I was
presented. In order to assure that the students at the Rabeh Belghwar school in Algeria receive the books before the final
report of the project was due, I made sure the rest of the project was done two weeks before the deadline. I learned to
use a number of organisation tools and techniques to make sure I followed the timeline for each step in my creation
process. The main tool I used was google sheets which helped me establish a set routine to work. Along with all my
classes already jotted down on the online calendar, I made sure to create an extra event or class that would be 2 hours
long. This class started on monday after school and happened every week. During these two hours, I allocated time to
work on my personal
project. During the first
half of my project, I had a
lot more work to do as I
had to research and write
my knowledge to create
the website and posters
and really lay out the
groundwork for the latter
stages of the project. Thus,
I had to allocate two hours every week on monday to make sure the preliminary stages of the project were set. If I could
not work on Monday due to other academic coursework, I would reschedule the class for Friday after school. The fact I
took time from my Friday afternoon served as a sort of punishment or reminder to make sure to organize my time
efficiently as now I have to take time from my Friday afternoon, my free-time, to finish the work. However, in the latter
stages, especially once the project was pretty much self-automated and we were simply waiting on donations, I changed
the classes to only once every 2 weeks. During that time, I would go around and collect the books, keep logs of how
many books we are receiving from each community and what type and I spent time reevaluating the project, thinking of
more lucrative or creative improvement to the project. In addition, it was during these sessions I started connecting with
more people such as my uncles to really start planning out the shipment of the books to the school. In reality, I had as
big of a project to complete that ever stretched above 2 months, this was a first and I think it was through the new
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strategies I learned, I was able to successfully complete the project. In reality, this new skill I had learned throughout the
completion of my project will prove to be useful in the foreseeable future. Whether it be towards my higher studies such
as completing an internal assessment or college paper or towards my career opportunities such as creating an application
or working on a case, the fact I will have to work on long term projects that stretch over the course of several months is
inevitable and possessing sufficient time-management skills will be essential. Therefore, this project impacted my
learning through instilling in me the value of time-management and this impact will forever stay with me as I navigate
through my future higher studies and career endeavours.
Secondly, this project has impacted my learning in what concerns the out of school and professional
environment as a whole. In short, I would argue the completion of this project has humanized my moral thinking and
given me a new perception about the world and how my parents have exhausted themselves to put me in the situation I
find myself in today. In reality, I am of Algerian descent and a son of two immigrant parents. By working with these
individuals and this institution (Rabeh Belghwar), I have felt a renewed sense of gratitude and respect for my parents’
hardships. Quite frankly, what marked me the most across this project was how close I was to being the beneficiary and
not the philanthropist. A mere generation separated myself from that reality I can only imagine. I like to think I come
from a privileged background and I am pretty well off. However, I lacked this gratitude initially before partaking in the
Personal Project. Before, I have to admit I was always very quick to complain about schoolwork such as a project or an
upcoming exam. In addition, I complained about the little chores or responsibilities my parents gave me and the
moderate academic expectations they set on me. After completing and collecting a firsthand account of what students,
no different or lesser than me go through every day, my whole moral perception was completely overturned. I realized
that although it may seem frustrating at times, I am in no position to complain about academic expectations or
workload as at least, I have been presented with a more than sufficient amount of resources to navigate through the
hardships. Others are not as fortunate. Hence, this project instilled in me gratitude towards my parents for having given
me ressources they weren’t as fortunate to receive. In addition, the project taught me to be more mindful and judge
others less. I had a bad habit of being too quick to judge. However, this project showed me that these gaps in learning
and life in general, and generally a product of lack of exposure to sufficient resources. This project grounded me and
taught me to not look down upon others. From all this, I would argue that this project and the philanthropist actions
offered me a sort of moral uplifting by teaching me to hone a more considerate and grateful mindset.
My final product:
At the end of all my efforts, I was presented with my final product, the first philanthropic act my charitable
organization will apply (sending donated books to Algeria). In short, the project consisted of setting the groundwork to
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create the charity and promote the organization as well as the cause, with the aim of completing its first philanthropic
act (first shipment of books to a third world country of choice). I was inspired to choose Algeria as I hope it would
develop a certain kinship with my countrymen and heighten my awareness of what individuals like me endure everyday.
I chose to name my philanthropic organization “A Book Saves a Mind”. I had dabbled around the idea of naming the
charity “A Book Saves A Life” but chose instead to go with “Mind”, taking into mind the positive effects of books on a
child’s cognitive ability. The tangible product of my product consists of multiple posters spread around the GTA and
most important of all, a “Book Saves A Mind” website. This website served as the core and motor of my project to send
books to Algeria. This website regrouped almost every aspect of my project into tangible proof. It provided:
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A detailed account of the global issue that is the scarce literary ressources presented to the youth in third world
countries.
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Presents specific statistics and numbers about the global issue
A detailed description of the organization and the cause we fight for
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Presents our contact information
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How we fight for the cause, our philanthropic strategy
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All the locations one can donate a book
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Details about the school we are currently helping (Rabeh Belghwar)
Lastly, the project consisted of the final dispatching of the books to Rabeh Belghwar. This was done by piggybacking off
of relatives who were traveling to Algeria during the spring and would serve as the connecting piece between my
organization lodged in Toronto, and Rabeh Belghwar.
When working on my personal project, I had kept a poster on the wall in front of my desk. On this poster, was a table
with my 5 success criterias and 4 levels (1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 MYP grades). As I gradually progressed and worked my way
through the project, I kept track of where I found myself and would grade myself in each criteria. The main idea was, if
my project would come to a halt, how successful would it be. I graded myself using the MYP scale and made 4 levels,
each level grouping an increment of two MYP grades. I used this grading system to evaluate if I am really hitting the
standards and goals of my project. Everytime I completed a step in my project, I would reevaluate all 5 criterias and
hopefully have progressed towards a better grade. In reality, the progression of the grade for each criteria was not
simultaneous. Some criterias denoted moments only in the latter stages of the project. Hence, my grade for those
criterias stagnated for the better part of the project but spiked as soon as we had achieved the project in full. In addition,
the grade for each criteria did not always progress in an upward trend. Some did the opposite, for instance, cost. I had
started off spending 0 dollars but had to spend money as the project progressed.
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Evaluation:
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Overall evaluation:
Overall, I think that I succeeded in my learning goal and created a somewhat successful product. However, I did not nail
every single one of my goals and success criterias. One of the main issues was that the project was too ambitious. Upon
having spoken with Mrs. Elliott about what I plan to do, she had told me it was too ambitious. She explained to me that
it would be very difficult to bring about change at the scale I wish to do so, seeing as I would be limited in what I can do
when taking into consideration my young age and the limited time frame I had to complete the project. Nevertheless, I
chose to continue with the project. I did take a lot of shortcuts due to the time I had and the difficulty to complete the
project. Although my adaptations allowed me to create a final product, it undermined the product’s pertinence and
success. By taking these shortcuts I was able to achieve all my success criterias. However, I had not been able to achieve
them perfectly as my shortcuts with the aim of completing the product and all the criterias, left holes, inconsistencies or
at the least, areas for improvement in every criteria. In reality, my overambition and my lack to properly evaluate what I
can do in the given time was at the root of the hindrance of my project. However, one thing I really enjoyed about
making this project is its longevity. In reality, instead of making a singular product, I chose to make an organization that
would do multiple projects in the foreseeable future. As I have enjoyed and refined my emotional, academic and career
knowledge, I will definitely continue this project in the future. Next time, I hope to help a country that isn’t Algeria,
maybe Ethiopia or Palestine. To do so, I need to improve the autonomy of my project. To do so, I can outline a couple
next steps to try and implement for my future projects with my “Book Saves a Mind” organization.
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