White Bear Lake Area High School ...

Every day, one billion people make a three hour journey to gather water! There is a water crisis throughout the world that is creating economic, social, educational and, worst of all, life threatening conditions. We can help change that statistic for our partner school. We want our students to know that by working together, we can make a difference in the world! We hope that all students in our school will benefit from our partnership with H2O for Life. Students will be challenged to think about their own habits concerning water usage, and will develop awareness of the enormity of the issues surrounding water in our world. We hope our school will be committed to make this project for our partner school a reality.

White Bear Lake Area High School ...

White Bear Lake High School - South Campus wants to help other students on a global level. We believe in becoming engaged citizens with a global understanding.

White Bear Lake Area Learning Center

Viewing a video from a representative from the WE ACT organization motivated students to participate and provide a school with clean drinking water. Helping build a well is something that students feel will develop not just clean water, but will assist the students by allowing them more time in the classroom. Our school is involved in many local community service projects and can see how those projects affect our local residents and now want to expand their giving toward a global effort.

White Bear Lake Girls Hockey and ...

The WBL Girls Hockey and Basketball teams have been dedicating one of their home games to raising money for H2O for life for the past couple of years. It is important for us to show our support and solidarity to important worldwide crises.

White Bear Lake Rotary

White Bear Nation helps Navajo Na...

White Bear Lake High School has partnered with H2O For Life for many years and this year is no exception. This pandemic has given our students a historic chance to help out people in our own country with unbelievable needs. The Navajo Nation currently has been decimated with Coronavirus. As of April 27, they had 1,873 positive COVID-19 cases and 60 known deaths. An estimated 40% of residents don't have access to running water, making hygiene practices extremely challenging. This is where we can help. H2O For Life has partnered with DigDeep to bring water, sanitation, and hygiene facilities to the Navajo Nation. DigDeep is currently working non-stop to deliver soap, build handwashing facilities and provide lifesaving water for residents. GO BEARS!

Willow Lane Elementary School

Willow Lane Elementary School serves a diverse student population with nearly 60% of our students on Free and Reduced Lunch. Service is a core value of the White Bear Lake Area Schools. Willow Lane is transitioning to an Environmental Science focus. This project brings some great learning opportunities that will tie-in with service and the environmental issues around water. Our students will focus on additional core values of compassion, integrity and responsibility.

Wishing Well - Alaina Rivera

Alaina (age 11) is starting a service project for the summer and is hoping to donate her proceeds to a school in need. She has purchased supplies for water balloon flip flops with her own money and is going to assemble them and sell them with the hopes of earning cash to help provide needy children with clean water. We visited H2O for Life at the Aveda water walk on Earth Day and my children talk of the organization frequently. You made quite an impression upon them!

Women Water Warriors

While traveling in Uganda with H2O for Life, our group visited Rushaga School in Bwindi Uganda. We were impressed with the collaborative community spirit. The women, men and children of Rushaga work together to enhance the welfare of every community member. The women's collaborative creates crafts that are sold at the base of the Gorilla Trek, the community funds an orphanage, the school, noon-time meals for children and more. We noticed that the school does not have access to adequate and safe water. The addition of a tank and gutters to collect rainwater is a simple solution. (Nothing about getting supplies to Rushaga is simple, but it can be done!)

WorldWalkers

The children that go to the Chub Romdeng Primary School do not have access to clean and safe water. To understand the work and effort they put in each day to have water to drink as a community we will walk together to help raise money for a WASH project. Women and children spend on average 8 hours a day collecting water, which takes away time from an education that creates well informed citizens who contribute to advancing their society. If women and children have the assurance of having clean water, families will be healthier and have a greater ability to have a steady income. This walk is raising awareness for suffering countries all around the world who do not have access to clean water. As a community when we walk for water, we will not only understand the difficulties of carrying water, but it will also help raise awareness about the importance of conserving water.

Wright Technical Center

When our students learned about the hardships that less fortunate societies experience they wanted to help. They are concerned that there is such a high mortality rate and disease rate because of contaminated drinking water and lack of sanitation. Good clean drinking water is something is something that we take for granted because it is readily available and inexpensive. They think everyone should have access to healthy water so they decided to get involved when they learned about H2O for Life.

Wyoming Elementary

The student council at Wyoming Elementary does several service projects during the school year. Traditionally the projects that we have done have been for our local community. This project was brought to our attention by a group from St. Paul Lutheran Church, a local church mission group that visited Mtera in Tanzania. Former Wyoming Elementary students were part of the group visiting Tanzania. They came back very enthusiastic about digging a new well at Mtera. The Wyoming Elementary student council was excited to be part of this global opportunity after hearing about the drinking water conditions at Mtera Secondary School. The pastor painted a great picture for us by telling us about seeing monkeys playing in the water tower there, and waiting in line for a great length of time to get a small amount of dirty water in her water bottle.