We Create Change: final tally

After a couple of weeks of planning, preparing, and then carrying it out, Room 18 has finished the We Create Change campaign at Radisson School, the aim of which was to collect pennies (which are being phased out of circulation) to provide clean drinking water for people in the developing world. The students divided themselves up into four groups: posters (they made posters about the campaign, and plastered the school with them), classroom visits (prepared and delivered presentations about the campaign for each class in the school), announcements (they wrote and then delivered daily announcements over the school's PA system), and the coin group (they prepared containers to collect coins for each of the classrooms, and then collected, sorted, and counted the coins every day for a week). It was exciting to see the students organizing themselves with a minimal amount of guidance from me. Today we arrived at the final tally: 16 bags of pennnies (each worth $25), and another $60 of other change - altogether, this is more than enough money to provide 18 people with clean drinking water for life! I am so proud of the Radisson community for opening up their hearts (and 'dusty old jars', as one of my students wrote in the announcements!) to help others - way to go. As for my class, I couldn't be prouder of them - they worked hard and had fun doing this, and set a great example for the rest of the school on how to help others... and they did so with a great degree of independence. Bravo, Room 18... bravo!