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)

Team Mains’l: Join Us in Building...

Our 2021 goal is big: raise $50,000! Mains’l Mission Team members are made up of employees who have committed to sharing their gifts, skills and talents with others through our work in Africa. For the past nine years, the Mission Team has been working and building relationships with those we meet while in Zimbabwe. Collaborating with our on-the ground partner, Mother Africa Trust, our work has included supporting an orphanage, an old age home, building a new school, numerous projects in rural villages, and conservation efforts. 2021 will mark our 10th team mission trip of Mains’l. There is a critical need in Zimbabwe right now, and we are continuing our mission efforts when we journey to Africa in September. All funds go directly to our trusted partners on the ground in Zimbabwe, with no overhead or administrative expenses allocated. All travel costs are paid by the mission team members and Mains'l. Please support these activities today! <b>Watch our video <a href="https://vimeo.com/380735010">here.</a></b> Click on "Zimbabwe Treasure Chest" to find out more.

Technology, Engineering & Communi...

Our group at Technology, Engineering & Communications High School would love to participate in H2O for Life cause because we are dedicated to raise awareness and help those in need. Katie Spotz visited our school and explained current situations families are faced with due to the lack of a reliable and clean water source. In response, we decided to accept the challenge and we want to put forth our time and effort to become a helping hand to the less fortunate. We are extremely efficacious and genuinely believe we can impact those who need clean water and an education. Our compassion and empathy draws us to this issue and we know that as a group we can create change. We believe in our cause and want to make the world a better place for all.

Temple University's American Mark...

The Social Impact Committee of TU-AMA is dedicated to improving the local and global community that we live in. We participate in various community service projects in Philadelphia and around the world.

The Agnes Irwin School

We are a Pre-k to 12th grade school. We strive to be a school that educates our girls on sustainable practices and awareness on issues that impact the health and safety of our community and world. Understanding the importance of water as a resource is important. We take it for granted in the Philadelphia region but want our students to know that many parts of the world do not have the abundance we enjoy. Helping another school is important to us. And as a girls school we know that the work of hauling water falls largely on girls and women.

The Albany Academy

The Albany Academy stands as the first and only independent, preparatory, Pre-K through post-graduate school in New York’s Capital Region. The Academy offers an innovative model of education, with co-educational learning in the Lower and Upper Schools and single-sex learning in the Middle School. The Academy’s curriculum is designed to develop diligent students of high character who become curious, critical thinkers.