Day Middle School Temecula & Skyetime
Students from the Day Middle School in Temecula, CA decided to help children in Africa gain access to clean water after learning about the water crisis from Skye McNeil, founder of the website Skyetime.com. She explained that children in Africa spend hours every day walking 6 to 7 miles to fetch water for their families […]
The Wheatlands Elementary School
In February students at the Wheatlands Elementary School in Aurora, IL held an act-of-kindness fundraiser to raise money help build a water well for a school in Africa. Throughout the year the school had been practicing acts of kindness and had made several donations to organizations in their community. This time they decided to take […]
Ellie built a well
6 year old Ellie was shocked to hear that children in Africa did not have clean water, so she went to her school and asked them if they could help her get a well built. With a little help from her Mother, Ellie designed a bracelet that said H2O=Life to sell as a school fundraiser. […]
Hannah and Sam
Hannah and her friend Sam are freshmen in high school. They recently sold hundreds of bracelets around their school and community and raised almost $1,000. The bracelets said “Mina Nika” which is the zulu translation for “I Give”.
A whole lot of change
The student Council and Penny Harvest Committee from the for Excellence collected funds for a Penny Harvest campaign and raised $500 for Drop in the Bucket. The students fervently collected loose change from classrooms and then developed a round table forum to discuss where they would donate the money they raised. After several meetings and a […]
Storm’s Lemonade Stand
Storm heard about the water crisis from members of his family that were planning fundraising ideas and decided that he wanted to help too, so he started Storm’s Drop in the Bucket Lemonade Stand! $1/Cup $1/water. Storm said “I am raising money for kids to have water in Africa so they don’t get sick anymore.” […]
Max’s Birthday Fundraiser
For his Birthday, Seven year old Max wanted to do something to help children in Africa. He also wanted to make sure he and all his friends had fun, so they found a laser tag facility and booked the party there. Max wanted his friends to come and have fun, eat cake play games and […]
Megan
There’s no age limit on having a big heart. Six year old Megan from New York heard about the water crisis in Africa and wanted to help. Megan held sponsored read-a-thons amongst other things and managed to raise $1000 all on her own.
Miriam’s Birthday Wish
For Miriam’s 8th birthday she decided that instead of gifts she would ask her friends to help children in Africa, so she sent out an invitation with this written on it; Please don’t bring a gift for me – We will make a cool group present while you are here. For my birthday, I would […]
Brayden
A little bit of change can go a long way… Never take for granted the power of change. Eight year old Brayden of Colorado collected and donated all of his change to Drop in the Bucket. “I want to help Africa. I hope this money helps.” Thank you Brayden! Your generous contribution helped to provide […]