Now that you've signed up...

Step 1: Share the Word

Update your Facebook status to read "I joined the One Million Bones challenge today. Learn more at @StudentsRebuild."

Step 2: Get Creative & Bring Others On Board

Create. Gather your clay, plaster, wood, fabric or other materials. Make a bone for peace. Make a bone for hope and healing. Make a bone to show our connectedness. Pair it with a personal story or message and send it in.

Bring friends. Call your friends and invite them to a bone making event. Check out our Tips and Tools section for a complete how-to. Remember the challenge: to generate $500,000 for CARE by spreading the word and making bones. 

Step 3: Learn & Connect

Connect. Want to know more than just the facts? Dive deep into crises in Somalia and DRC through live webcasts, field blogs and interactive videoconferences with relief workers, your peers in Somalia and DRC and other challenge participants. This short welcome video from our own Pauline Zerla introduces you to ways to connect and learn more:



Share Your Voice. Share your photos on our Facebook page. Visit often to view others’ photos. See how students all over the globe are meeting this challenge.

Step 4: Donate Bones & Meet This Challenge

Submit your handmade bones. Mail your contributions for placement at the National Mall in 2013. Students from outside North America have the option to submit photographs of their handmade bones, which will be digitally woven into the final installation and selectively incorporated into a book and short film about the project. 

Do you live outside of the United States and want to participate? We know that shipping outside of the U.S. is expensive so you are welcome to send a digital photo of your handmade bone(s) to info@studentsrebuild.org. Be sure to let us know how many bones were made and where you live. Pair the photo and bone count with a personal story, a wish or other photographs of your bone making event. Follow these simple steps and your bones will also be counted and will generate funds for CARE!

Generate a donation. Your handmade bones will generate funding for CARE’s work to improve livelihoods and advance educational opportunities for young people in Somalia and the DRC. Read more about how the challenge works and where the funding will go here. 

Questions? Please reference our Frequently Asked Questions.