Nov 11
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For the past three years, students and staff at St. Bonaventure School in Edmonton, Canada have been using creative ways to offer financial support to provide children in India with clean water. Here’s how the amazing group of students and teachers are doing it:
Under the title “India Water Project,” the school has thrown out the challenge to students to find creative ways to fundraise, and the new ideas continue to keep rolling despite it being the school’s third year with the program. One example, under the guidance of teacher extraordinaire Nella Bruni, is something the students call “Water Wednesdays.” In year one, the program was designed to have students go around with plant watering jugs to each class to collect donations during each Wednesday of Lent. In year two, the project grew when students set up their instruments to busk at Parent Teacher conferences. Parents happily tossed coins and bills in their collection containers that evening. Students raised enough money to buy filters for 21 homes that night.
It is this combination of creative yet simple projects like these that has students planning and carrying out social justice programs that is bringing clean water and a better chance of staying healthy to students and families thousands of miles away.
