A group of West Vancouver elementary school students have inspired a program to help bring water to other parts of the world.
Sixty-four children aged six to nine from Cypress Park elementary in West Vancouver raised $8,000 to build a well in the South Sudan village of Gol Meen.
This is the second time the students have raised funds to help villagers in South Sudan. Last year, they raised more than $8,000 in six weeks to drill a water well at the village school of Riak Dor in support of the Obakki Foundation. The students raised the funds through bake sales, lemonade stands and from their own pockets, according to the website obakkifoundation.org.
The Obakki Foundation provides clean water to various communities in Africa. Obakki's founder and creative director, Treana Peake was so inspired by the students that she developed the Kids for Clean Water program.
The foundation is working with the students to help other schools in the province learn how to raise funds to build more wells.
