Hoboken – Water Wings

Get “Water Wings” and Fly!

Teachers and students, led by Mr. S.K Duff, had a fantastic time learning about the water crisis, and then taking action to make a difference. His 3rd grade art students participated in the newly created UBUNTU art and service curriculum.

The kids hosted a “Water Wings” carnival where they exhibited their African art works from Songye masks to Kente cloths, as well as performing a poem in Swahili. In addition, the music teacher and Mr. Duff were shaved and sheered as part of the fundraising, coupled with an “Isn’t It Just Ducky” auction where kids reconstructed rubber ducks into artworks. All of this was along with a water themed carnival bringing the global water crisis to the forefront of the community. There were many service learning angles…plus the event was just plain fun. One could do everything from throwing darts at balloons filled with water colors over mural paper to having a photo taken with a “mermaid”

Hoboken Charter School, located in Hoboken, New Jersey, raised $2,640 to fund rainwater catchment, latrines and hand-washing stations for Chelelach Primary school in Kenya. Mr. Duff said, “I am so proud of our third graders, their regular classroom teachers, Ms. Shain and Ms. Nuygen and our entire school, and am truly grateful to the hard work and efforts of H2O for Life.”