Cumberland Students Sell Handmade Bracelets to Help Kenyan School
Fourth-grade girls raise $50 over their summer break to help turn a dilapidated school house in Nairobi into a new, four-story facility.
When Cumberland School students saw pictures of a school in Kenya where students are packed shoulder-to-shoulder, knees-to-back into a small classroom with tin walls, four fourth-grade girls took the extra initiative to raise funds for the school by selling handmade bracelets, hair bows and headbands during their summer break. Cumberland Principal Jayne Heffron visited Valley View Academy in Nairobi, Kenya about three years ago when she heard about the school's needs from Shorewood native Stephanie Koczela, who is working with the school's officials to raise money and construct a new school building. After Heffron gave a presentation to Cumberland students and parents about the fundraising effort upon her return, the school's PTO solicited…
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1:07 pm on Thursday, July 12, 2012
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