Oakhurst Students Collect “Change For Haiti”
February 8, 2010 | 4:47 pmAnne writes in…
The students of Oakhurst Elementary are presently holding a change drive entitled “Change for Haiti” in which the funds collected will go towards UNICEF’S “School-in-a-Box” Program providing temporary schools for children in disaster zones. Each “School-in-a-Box”, which costs $232, contains enough school supplies for 80 children.
This idea grew from 2 of Oakhurst’s very own students who were wanting to do something for the children of Haiti following the devastating earthquake. The third graders are collecting and counting/rolling the change and using their knowledge of estimation, multiplication and money as they make real life connections all while raising money for a good cause. It also draws close a real world example of Empathy and Caring, one of the design principles of Expeditionary Learning. By last Friday, the end of the first week, Oakhurst had collected well over $1000!
“Change for Haiti” will continue until this Friday, February 12th.
Wow! Neat! Clairemont did something similar and collected something like over 100 “personal hygiene kits”, each worth ~$12 and over $500 in change.
Decatur kids rock!
So, my son goes to Glennwood and I have heard nothing but crickets on the Haiti issue. Crickey! They are an “IB World School,” right? Learning experience perhaps?
Heck, even my son’s basketball team had a fundraising effort.