Category: Kids helping kids

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. That isn’t all she has planned though, Ellie wants her school to pay for an entire well. So Ellie and her teacher put together a Spirit Week that kids can pay to participate in, and she will be collecting donations at her school’s Spaghetti Dinner. Ellie managed to raise the funds for her first well, but doesn’t want to stop there to read more about this amazing young girl please go to her website.

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”.

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 lot of research they selected Drop in the Bucket. We would like to extend a huge thank you to all of the students and teachers involved for their hard work and dedication.

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.” He’s already raised $185 and is planning on raising $2000. Thanks Storm you are amazing!

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 instead of gifts make a donation.

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 like to make a donation to a charity. I would like to help dig a well for a school in Africa. If each of you brings $5 instead of a present I will send the money to help children who don’t have clean water.