{"id":10706,"date":"2013-01-14T14:02:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T19:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/?p=10706"},"modified":"2017-11-28T10:54:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T15:54:54","slug":"from-brownie-points-to-well-wishes-rylies-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/2013\/01\/14\/from-brownie-points-to-well-wishes-rylies-story\/","title":{"rendered":"From Brownie Points to Well Wishes — Rylie’s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rylie’s Girl Scout troop worked together to learn about the water crisis and contribute to a well project.<\/p><\/div>\n

Have you ever felt like you can\u2019t possibly make a difference? Oftentimes we feel powerless to make any lasting impact in the world we live in, but\u00a04th grader Rylie refused to believe that.\u00a0 She educated others and brought people together with the common goal of raising money to build a well.\u00a0 Rylie proves that together we can do great things and shows that the power of determination can be stronger than any perceived obstacle.<\/p>\n

Rylie first became involved with the Water Project in 2011 while her Brownie troop was working on a badge.\u00a0 The girls learned about the scarcity of clean water in much of the world, and they contributed funds from their cookies sales to the project.\u00a0 Their contribution in and of itself is wonderful, but what is most impressive is the knowledge that Rylie carried forward from that experience.<\/p>\n

Last year her 4th grade class studied the global impact of clean water, and the children were overwhelmed by the problem.\u00a0 They wanted to do something to help, but they felt there was no way they could make an impact. \u00a0That is, until Rylie stepped forward and told her story.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer, Rylie’s Mom shares, “It’s been amazing. This is the second project we’ve done. Last spring,\u00a0my Girl Scout Troop contributed funds from our Cookie Sales. The Girls\u00a0Scouts have a badge that has a water component and we found your\u00a0\u00a0organization during that project. Fast forward to this year and my\u00a0daughter’s class was studying the global impact of water. The children were\u00a0distraught at how limited clean water is and how it is used around the\u00a0world. They also felt very powerless to impact the issue. That is, until\u00a0my daughter came back to the class with the proposal of collecting funds\u00a0for the water project!!!!” \u00a0If we as adults often feel powerless to effect change in the world we live in, it would seem to be even truer for children who have no perceived power for change \u2013 no consumer power, no voting power.\u00a0 But not Rylie \u2013 she remembered the work her Brownie troop had done.\u00a0 She explained to the class the work that the Water Project does and suggested they collect funds.<\/p>\n

But the story doesn\u2019t stop there!\u00a0 Rylie\u2019s class went on to create presentations and collection boxes for all of the other classes in the school.\u00a0\u00a0 Not only is the whole community more aware of the global water issue, but they were determined to raise enough money to build a well. \u00a0All of this the fruits of a young girl who only saw what could<\/em> be done.<<\/p>\n

The young can inspire us in so many ways, but we oftentimes let what we see as limitations hamper their abilities and our own.\u00a0 We can look to Rylie to see the possible<\/em> and shed our doubts.<\/p>\n

See the impact<\/a> Rylie, her Brownie\u00a0troop,\u00a0 and Anne’s 4th grade class fundraising has had; and be inspired! \u00a0Rylie proves that together we can do great things and shows that the power of determination can be stronger than any perceived obstacle.<\/p>\n

Together we can do amazing things when we all do something. \u00a0What action can you take?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever felt like you can\u2019t possibly make a difference? Oftentimes we feel powerless to make any lasting impact in the world we live in, but\u00a04th grader Rylie refused to believe that.\u00a0 She educated others and brought people together with the common goal of raising money to build a well.\u00a0 Rylie proves that together […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-groups"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10706"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57816,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10706\/revisions\/57816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}