Water Warrior: Inspiring news from a H20 for Life Campaign!
The H2O For Life Campaign at The Haverford School in Haverford Pennsylvania has official closed. With the support of the entire Haverford community, the second grade team raised $7,628.50 for Kimeji Primary School in Tanzania.
The campaign was kicked off for H2O on World Water Day with a Drop in the Bucket Brigade. The second grade boys lined the walkway as our Middle and Upper School Divisions passed through our gauntlet dropping in coins to help “Make a Change” in the lives of their peers in Africa. Afterward, they visited the classrooms in the Lower School to collect any coins that the Lower School community brought in to support the efforts. The boys took their buckets back to the classrooms and sorted and counted the money in teams. They raised over $700 in one half hour, but as importantly they raised awareness of the global need for clean water throughout the Haverford Community.
The boys took their responsibility as global citizens seriously and participated in their own ways. Then on April 20th, 2012, the entire second grade team laced up their sneakers and each team member grabbed two gallon jugs full of water and headed to Sabol Field, our school track, to walk in the shoes of the children from Kimeji Primary and all children who have to walk for a clean drink of water. Later that evening the Haverford Community was invited to attend a Bingo Night hosted by the combined efforts of The Haverford Upper School Service Learning Team and Agnes Irwin, our sister school. $1,140 of our total was raised in that joint effort and generously donated to the second grade class for our Walk for Water Campaign.
They not only reached their goal of $5,000 but surpassed it!
Thank you The Haverford School! Keep up the good work!
Solange Knowles Joins Coca-Cola Campaign For Clean Water In Africa
Singer Solange Knowles recently teamed up with The Coca-Cola Company to help raise funds for the Replenish Africa Initiative (RAIN). Along with singer Chris Taylor and musician Twin Shadow, Knowles created a “donate to download” single titled “Kenya”.
Fans can donate as much as they can for the track and bosses at The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation are hoping to raise $10,000 (£6,700) for clean water projects in Rwanda, Uganda and Cameroon.
Knowles says, “Water is a necessity, it’s not a privilege. The ‘Music for RAIN’ project gives everyone a chance to contribute and play a part in improving the situation.”
The single is available for download here.
Via contactmusic.com
