Submitted by – Sara Damon In honor of International Women’s Day, a picture of Morgan G., Lyxie M. and Sarah S. These young women spoke about our project last week at the Stillwater Sunrise Rotary Club. They delivered a polished presentation and handled on-the-spot questions like pros! We have a busy spring of awareness raising […]
Sara Damon is an AP Geography teacher at Stillwater Junior High School near Minneapolis, Minnesota. Since 2009, she and her students have been studying the global water crisis and raising funds for schools in South Sudan through H2O for Life. As a part of a lesson plan Sara created for H2O for Life called The Ripple […]
Porter students who raised $20 or more in sponsorships, participated in Water Day! They had a BLAST with slip n’ slides, water relay races, slippery tug o’ war, and a massive water balloon fight. It was one exhilarating way to end the H20 For Life fundraising events. More that 35 children participated in the event, […]
This is our first time that Porter fundraised for another country outside of Africa. It was exciting to connect my most recent trip to India and sponsoring of a well in India, and then seeing it happen again through H2O For Life with all the Porter students. We fundraised by selling T-shirts, glow in the […]
Porter Elementary walked with the community to our local fire station to donate water bottles. The winning class from the school-wide coin drive led the way. Ms. Carlson’s 3rd Grade class also took a tour of the fire station and learned how local emergency help those who are in need and also provide water to […]