St. Rita Catholic School

Through the Saint Rita One Read program we hope to facilitate conversation and discussion of important topics among our diverse community members. During the 2016-2017 school year, we will read the books A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park and The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Young Readers Edition) by William Kamkwamba. Classroom and community activities will spark learning about scarce resources around the world, especially water. Students will be encouraged to become responsible consumers of resources. The Walk for Water will challenge the students to raise money and awareness in the community and test themselves physically as they experience just a fraction of what young people around the world must endure on a daily basis.

St. Therese Catholic Academy

St. Therese is a diverse, welcoming community that seeks to ignite the faith, minds, and dreams of its students to prepare them to excel spiritually, academically, and socially in high school, college, and beyond. Founded in 1927, we are in our 90th school year this year! We want to let our sisters and brothers around the globe know that they matter, that we care, and that we will strive to live more simply so they can live more abundantly.

Sturgis H2O Campaign

The Sturgis H2O Campaign will involve all four of our K-5 elementary buildings. We are leaders, we look for ways to help and make plans to be successful. Our students will be learning about the lack of safe water in Africa and how it impacts children and their health and ability to learn and attend classes. We will be doing coin collections, water walks and other activities during the next few weeks. We are working with Freshwater International and H2O. Our goal is to raise $2000 which will be doubled by matching funds from The GoAbroad Foundation and our local Sturgis Rotary. $4000 for safe water and bathrooms at the Mselera School and for their community! We start today, April 22 and will collect until May 3rd.

St. Ursula Academy

We are an all girls Catholic High School in Cincinnati. We have a monthly mission collection in which we choose a non-profit across the globe to support with monetary donations. For the month of January, 2017, we chose H2O for Life.

Sumter High School's AVID Students

Sumter High School's AVID students are excited about making a difference outside our own world here in South Carolina as we strive together to make progress towards college readiness.

Sunrise Park Middle School

Sunrise Park Middle School has long been a supporter of the H2O for Life Organization. Over the years, the students and staff have raised more then $10000.00 to build wells and sanitation stations in 6 different countries. The students connect with students their age throughout the world and appreciate their ability to make a difference in their everyday lives. 6th, 7th and 8th grade students, along with National Junior Honor Society and Student Council students, organize and lead fund-raising opportunities that involve the entire Sunrise Park community. Sunrise Park Middle School, in collaboration with the White Bear Lake Rotary, have established a service learning program, Week Without Walls, wherein the students travel to Costa Rica to participate in various service learning projects.

Sunset Ranch Elementary

We chose this because we really want to help them have what we consider basic necessities. We don't want them to get sick from unclean water or miss school because of water issues. Also, we think that we can actually raise this much money by May and plan on going over our pledge and giving the extra to another school.

Sunset Ridge Middle

We are a middle school and we are reading A Long Walk to Water and completing a Water Life Experience project. We are hoping to inspire our children to help others.

Sunset Ridge Middle School

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!