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Torture Your Teacher Day

Posted by Steve Hall on June 14, 2019

“Torture your Teacher” at Pine City Jr/Sr High, MN. Awful tasting jelly beans (like puke and spoiled milk), a cheese ball toss at shaving cream covered heads and the choose an egg game – raw or hard boiled? The Grand finale – shaving the head of one “lucky” teacher! Good sports for a great cause! […]

Is local service a gateway to global citizenship? Ask Emily Crossette.

Posted by Nick Coughlin on June 14, 2019

When Emily Crossette joined H2O for Life as an incoming high school student at Abington Senior High in Pennsylvania, it seemed like a cool thing to do. The advisor was energetic, the group was involved in a lot of activities, and the club offered the opportunity to meet area water conservation leaders. Crossette never dreamed […]

Sixth grade boy learns about the water crisis, then asks what he can do to help

Posted by Nick Coughlin on June 12, 2019

Evan is in 6th grade at Oltman Middle School in Minnesota. After learning about the global water crisis from his teacher, Dawn Sicard, then reading the book “A Long Walk to Water,” Evan reached out to H2O for Life to see what more he could do to help. We sat down with Evan and his […]

Fresh, Clean Water!

Posted by Steve Hall on June 11, 2019

We are pleased to report that our implementing partner, Water for South Sudan, has recently drilled 2 new wells our schools have helped fund. Although parts of South Sudan continue to experience unrest, they have been able to continue drilling wells safely. Their work continues to provide grassroots development and sustainability for rural villages and […]

Latrine construction complete

Posted by Steve Hall on June 10, 2019

This is a community run school located within Rushaga village just a few meters from the edge of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda. There are 120 pupils, including 25 from the Batwa (pygmy) tribe who were moved out of the forest when it became a gorilla reserve. Several of the pupils have to board (live) […]

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