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East Texas students raise money to create water well in Uganda Students at Hudson PEP Elementary School in Longview were inspired to raise money to establish a clean water well in Uganda. (Source: We Work Two) By Christian Piekos | May 10, 2021 at 6:28 AM CDT - Updated May 10 at 9:29 AM
LONGVIEW, La. (KSLA) - Students at a Longview elementary school are changing the lives of people on the other side of the planet after being inspired by a simple book.
Longview school funds well in Africa
“Over time, we just kept getting built up sadness because these people are just suffering each day because of nasty water,” said Cohen Harvison, a Hudson PEP fifth grade student. “It was all of our combined efforts that helped create a well for at least three thousand people.”
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Solberg and Instruction Coach Joy Brooke provided some background.
“Three specific seventh graders that come to mind had an idea to start this club to raise money to build a well in the South Sudan,” said Principal Solberg. “Students could donate dollars, and we decorated the hallway with names of things that have been donated. They reached their $1,000 goal and we said beforehand that if we do, then we can do the Ice Bucket Challenge.”
Instructional Coach Joy Brooke said the idea came from a book called ‘Long Walk to Water’ by Linda Sue Park that provided a startling statistic that women in South Sudan had to walk a total of 50 million hours every year to carry fresh water to their homes and families.