{"id":2027,"date":"2010-04-26T09:41:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T14:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2017-11-28T10:54:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T15:54:59","slug":"grace-academy-students-reach-out-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/2010\/04\/26\/grace-academy-students-reach-out-to-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Academy students reach out to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Originally published at http:\/\/www.caymannetnews.com\/news-20941&#8211;1-1&#8212;.html<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cayman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2028\" title=\"cayman\" src=\"http:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cayman-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cayman-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cayman.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Grade 2 children at Grace Christian Academy learned the lesson of  compassion and world service recently with a project they undertook to  aid African children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter researching using our school\u2019s new  Smart board,\u201d said Lauren Sommerville , Grade 2 teacher, \u201cwe found a  charity called \u2018The Water Project\u2019 (www.TheWaterProject.org). This  charity provides schools and other organizations with fundraiser packs  to raise money to help provide safe, clean water to African children.\u201d  The students drank only water for two weeks, giving up all sodas and  other beverages, in order to donate the proceeds of the money they saved  to help build a water well in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The students were  compelled to reach out to other children after studying Africa in class,  particularly those countries where many of the children do not have  clean water to drink, such as Chad, Kenya and Nigeria. The Grade 2 class  raised a grand total of US$156.74.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is such a great  achievement,\u201d said Ms Sommerville, \u201cfor our class to have raised money  for The Water Project.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is such a great achievement,\u201d said Ms Sommerville, \u201cfor our class to have raised money for The Water Project.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"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-2027","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\/2027","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\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2031,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}