Poland Central School District Kids Against Pollution, Poverty and Prejudice club members string beads together for a project with Just One Africa that will help supply clean drinking water to people in Kenya.
“It makes me feel happy and grateful.” Poland students in the school’s Kids Against Pollution, Poverty and Prejudice club worked on the bead project after school.
The project is done through nonprofit organization Just One Africa’s “Beads for Water” program.
As the bracelets are sold, 100 percent of the profit goes to Just One Africa’s clean water program.
For every five bracelets sold, Just One Africa can purchase a clean water filter for the Kenyan communities.
Elementary students in the club then did the stringing of the beads along with the organizers.
“I’m glad to see the kids having so much fun, and we’re actually helping people, so it’s really cool.” Lynch said she is happy that the club was able to take on a global-level project and that the students’ effort will have an impact on African people getting drinking water.
“We’re helping impoverished people in Africa get clean water they don’t have access to.” Fourth-grader Trent Hobin, 10, said doing the project is stopping people in Africa from having to drink dirty water with diseases in it.
“It seems pretty fun, and I’m helping the African people,” she said.
It feels pretty good on the inside because knowing I can help others is honestly pretty cool.”