The students, staff and community of Abraham Erb Public School in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada helped sponsor the education of a teacher in the village of Mafay in Sierra Leone. Abraham Erb is made up of students from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 6.

Each class held class meetings and brainstormed ways that they could help raise the $ 2000.00 necessary to pay for the education of a teacher. The projects were very diverse ( garage sale, hot chocolate sales, extra family chores, bake sales, usedbook sale). The focus of the initiative was to create a student owned and operated service learning project (Children Helping Children). The ‘Footprints To Sierra Leone’ campaign ran for the entire year. The results surpassed our goals by over$1500.00. The additional money was used to make donations to various schools and projects in Sierra Leone.

The students also created a wish list of items they would like the students in Sierra Leone to have such as soccer balls and school supplies.   Teacher Mike Beetham was able to hand deliver the items to various schools in Sierra Leone as well as visit and meet the community in Mafay in the summer of 2011.  Through the use of photographs and video he was able to share with his school community the work they had accomplished and the greetings from the people of Mafay.

Great Work  Staff and Students at Abraham Erb!!! Your efforts will live on.

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