Sumter High School's AVID Students

Sumter High School's AVID students are excited about making a difference outside our own world here in South Carolina as we strive together to make progress towards college readiness.

Sunrise Park Middle School

Sunrise Park Middle School has long been a supporter of the H2O for Life Organization. Over the years, the students and staff have raised more then $10000.00 to build wells and sanitation stations in 6 different countries. The students connect with students their age throughout the world and appreciate their ability to make a difference in their everyday lives. 6th, 7th and 8th grade students, along with National Junior Honor Society and Student Council students, organize and lead fund-raising opportunities that involve the entire Sunrise Park community. Sunrise Park Middle School, in collaboration with the White Bear Lake Rotary, have established a service learning program, Week Without Walls, wherein the students travel to Costa Rica to participate in various service learning projects.

Sunset Ranch Elementary

We chose this because we really want to help them have what we consider basic necessities. We don't want them to get sick from unclean water or miss school because of water issues. Also, we think that we can actually raise this much money by May and plan on going over our pledge and giving the extra to another school.

Sunset Ridge Middle

We are a middle school and we are reading A Long Walk to Water and completing a Water Life Experience project. We are hoping to inspire our children to help others.

Sunset Ridge Middle School

Susanna Nordlund

Swan River Montessori Charter School

Learning at Swan River Montessori Charter School involves the student, the student’s family, the teachers, and the larger community. Swan River supports family and community participation in each child’s education by utilizing and appreciating community resources and the natural world as a learning environment.

Taft Elementary

Our school is a small school on Oregon's central coast. We were lucky enough to have such amazing administration, and team members in our district that they wrote a grant for a SEAL and model classroom design. As part of this grant teachers are able to join a group that helps improve our teaching. I joined this group, and was given the assignment to challenge my students to learn using the community. I have always felt that as a citizen of this world that my community was much larger than just the town that I live, and I want my first grade students to feel that way. So when looking at a project that I could start with my students I came across an article about H2O for Life. I thought this would be a great project for my students to learn about community, helping others, making a difference, and being a part of something bigger than themselves. The main way we are raising money is through a play the students will be putting on. The play is through Bad Wolf Press which is common core aligned. The play is about how we are all different and helping each other. We are so very excited to be able to help out with this project!

Tally's toilets

Last summer, my grand-daughter Tally, her family and I visited Ilawani Nursery school in Kenya. We observed a brilliant local woman, Joyce Mutuku, teaching her young (3-5 year old) students the alphabet, sight words, simple math skills and traditional songs and dances. The school room had a blackboard and a few wall decorations, crowded desks and was host to a group of happy, smiling children. Their outside playground had a few basic pieces of playground equipment, and the students jumped rope, played with a few soccer balls and gleefully enjoyed playing with each other and Tally, Tanner and Travis. We noticed that 2 students at a time were leaving the playground and disappearing for 5-10 minutes. We asked joyce where the students were going. They were walking to a church several blocks (I say blocks loosely) as they walked down a dusty road) to access the one available latrine. 3 year old kids- walking alone- vulnerable-to use a toilet. Can you help us make sure that Illawani School has access to toilets. Any donation, large or small, will help us reach our goal! Please make an online donation today! Thanks. We will raise the funds necessary to build accessible latrines that are within the school compound. It will contain a stall for girls, a stall for boys and a stall for teachers. Will you help? Please consider a donation- or better yet- build you own campaign and join me to reach out to family and friends to change the lives of these young students.

Taylor Junior High School

We would like to join two other Mesa Public Schools, Porter and Jefferson Elementary, in their partnership to raise money to help out Mithuri Primary School through real life simulations of carrying water gallons during a walk/jog a thon. We will also collect change through an all school coin drive using gallon jugs for collection. This will help us apply what we are learning in school as we help others. This will bring us together with students who will be eventually attending Taylor Junior High. Ms. Mendoza has been an inspiring leader and willing to help us.

Team Agua

Team Agua is a student-led H2O for Life Water Club in Woodbury, MN. We are sisters and co-founders of the club! We're doing this because we feel it is wrong for people to not have bathrooms or be able to wash their hands with clean water! "If people get sick, they might spread it to others." (Ana) "Helping others helps us all be safe." (Jayna) "Everyone should be able to wash their hands at school!" (Finn- the girls' best friend) THIS IS WHAT WE WANT TO DO AND HOW YOU CAN HELP: We learned about a school in need. It's called El Cascajal and it's in Nicaragua. They want to build 3 bathrooms because they don't have bathrooms. The whole project will cost $975. Starting November 1 we will walk one mile every day for every donation we get until we raise our money! Make a donation, any amount*, and we will walk to say thank you and raise awareness for how many kids actually have to walk miles for water every day! (*We made a video and suggested $30 because $30/day x 30 days gets us really close to our goal. We also learned that one mile of pennies is 84,480 pennies or $844.80 so we'd take spare change, too.) Thanks for helping us bring clean water and bathrooms to El Cascajal! Kids can make a difference!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u0bxDElbkk

Team Liam & Alex - HealthyH2O4All

We are young & passionate & were moved, almost to tears, after watching a documentary about the plight of school children in a lot of schools in Africa. We want to help them. Most of them do not have, what to us are the basic necessities of life. We had a very hard time coming to grips with the fact that even such a basic thing as clean drinking water was unavailable to the children! Fortunately, we were introduced to H2O for Life through our school. This is a fundraising project done each year at our school to help these children get safe drinking water. We cannot imagine We have chosen this school to support because the children there have to bring water from home. The majority of water collected is not potable & it is collected from runoff from the roads. The children suffer from water borne diseases with consequent dehydration & malnutrition. We can alleviate their suffering by helping raise $6000 to construct a tank that will collect clean drinking water. A 75,000-liter rainwater catchment tank will begin catching rainfall that will be used by the school’s students and staff for drinking, handwashing, cooking, cleaning, and much more. Here in the United States we can walk into any supermarket & have our choice of bottled drinking water. Furthermore, the tap water is safe to drink anywhere in the US. We know we cannot help achieve this level of comfort for these children but we know that together we can at least make a start. We thank H2O for life for giving us an opportunity to help these children & to make a difference in their lives. We are requesting that you join us by donating generously to this worthy cause. Thank you, Liam (11) Alex (7)