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<\/a>We also put a “bank” one of the children made at the lunch counter. \u00a0Two days a week the children are allowed to buy cookies or ice cream in addition to their lunch. \u00a0Many of them chose to put their money in the box and forgo the treat. \u00a0Others, put the change they received. \u00a0We had one child who on the last day was excited to put in his “tooth fairy money”. \u00a0I asked him if he had pulled the tooth so he could get the money. \u00a0He said. “no, my friend had kicked it out while we were wrestling!” \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 \u00a0We had several groups of friends make lemonade stands and water stands in their neighborhoods. \u00a0This was their idea. \u00a0I’ve attached a pic of 2 first \u00a0graders that one of the parents sent.\u00a0 Several families were very supportive and all gave up everything except tap water for the duration of the project. \u00a0We had several children empty their piggy banks. \u00a0They loved our Water Project T-shirts. \u00a0Susan (other sponsoring teacher) and I wore them every day!! \u00a0We told them \u00a0we were saving water on laundry!! \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 \u00a0We have one child who is \u00a0saving his allowance for several weeks so he can get one!<\/p>\nIncredibly, the featured article in the 5th grade “Weekly Reader” for Fri. Apr. 23 (day we collected the money) was “Water Woes” and stated many of the same facts that I shared with the children to explain the project. It had several pics of children carrying water….and explained the magnitude of the problem. \u00a0We used it to reinforce what we had told the children.<\/p>\n
I’m sure you hear these kinds of “stories” every day but we wanted you to know that you are not only helping children without clean water, you are also helping to educate the minds and hearts of our children who are blessed with much.<\/p>\n
Thank you for the bracelets. The children like them a lot. \u00a0You are wonderful to work with. \u00a0Hopefully, we’ll be allowed to do this next year too!!<\/p>\n
The children are looking forward to SEEING where they help to build a well!! \u00a0Me \u00a0too!!<\/p>\n
– Jan Scott and Susan Jordan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The students of Brennen Elementary did it again…raising over $1,400 for a well in Kenya. Read there story…<\/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-2081","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\/2081","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=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57848,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions\/57848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>We had a great time. \u00a0We held our Water Project in conjunction with Earth Day this year. \u00a0We were one of the stations that the children rotated to.\u00a0 Usually the PTO buys Popsicles for all the children at Earth day, but again this year the children \u00a0all AGREED to forgo the small treat and have tap water. At our station they had water and put the money their class had collected into the “well” that we made.\u00a0 The PTO then graciously agreed to write the check instead to the Water Project. \u00a0They gave us $200.00. \u00a0In that way EVERY child at the school participated in giving up something for the well.<\/p>\n