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Hillel sixth-graders Matthew Chayet, Jayme Starr and Alli VanDerAue sell
bottles at Temple Israel to raise money for clean water at a Ugandan school.
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Hillel sixth-graders raise money to
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ixth-graders at Hillel Day
School in Farmington Hills
carried out an initiative that
led to a chance for clean drinking
water in Abayudaya, a poverty-stricken
Jewish community in eastern Uganda.
Led by one of their language arts/
social studies teachers, Lauren
Sterling, the students learned the com-
munity's only source of water was a
contaminated water tank in the center
of town.
Moved to help — and with some
support from Kulanu Inc., an organiza-
tion already supporting the people of
Abayudaya — the students created the
"Clean Water Flow is More Important
than You Know" campaign, an entre-
preneurial venture to raise money
to bring clean water to children at a
school in Abayudaya.
They decided to create and design
reusable water bottles to sell at $12
each as a fundraiser. Students recom-
mended vendors, selected a slogan,
voted on a design, negotiated pricing
and determined a sale price in an
effort to send $1,000 to Abayudaya.
The Jews of Abayudaya number
approximately 1,500 people; Jewish
rituals are practiced, including keeping
kosher and observing Shabbat. The
school the students are helping edu-
cates nearly 800 Christian, Jewish and
Muslim students from that area.
"Our students wanted to raise
awareness of the lack of clean water in
many parts of the developing world,
and teachers in all disciplines incorpo-
rated the issue into their lesson plans
— including testing the cleanliness
of water in science experiments and
calculating water usage in graphing in
mathematics:' said Sterling.
Once the campaign was over, the
students had raised enough money to
replace the contaminated water tank
(giving the people of Abayudaya access
to clean drinking water), cover the
cost of the bottles (which were sell-
ing enough to justify a second order)
and provide a new water pump for the
community.
The initiative raised more than
$2,100, with the students dedicated
at every step of the project, including
giving up some weekends to sell the
bottles around town.
It was such a success that Sterling
says she will revive the project in the
future for other causes.
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A student at the Ugandan school uses the new water pump.