Pennies for Peace [SEP] inception
Pennies for Peace
Pennies for Peace is a program sponsored by Central Asia Institute, in which school children in the United States raise pennies to help fund CAI's educational projects. The program focuses on raising cross-cultural awareness through education to promote peace. 
Pennies for Peace was founded in 1995 as “Pennies for Pakistan”. The founders were two elementary school teachers, Susy Eisele and Sandy Heikkila, of the Westside Elementary School of River Falls, Wisconsin, USA. They had been inspired by a talk given by
Guatemala.
In 2005, The Entertainer launched its own Charity Wristband Partnership with 15 charities raising over £300,000 for a range of different causes.
Other charity fundraising.
In August 2011, The Entertainer switched on Pennies, the electronic charity box in all of its stores, allowing its customers to round-up their purchases and donate the change to charity. It was the first high street shop to do so, joining Domino's Pizza, Zizzi Restaurants and Travelodge. Since its inception, The Entertainer state that Pennies