For immediate release:
PA 6th Graders in Business of Saving Lives
Who: The entire sixth grade (roughly 80 students) and their three teachers at Green Valley Elementary School
What: Receiving a semi-trailer truckload of 12,000+ bottles of water that they developed and manufactured to raise funds to address the world’s water crisis.
When: Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 9:00 am
Location: Green Valley Elementary School
270 Green Valley Rd
Sinking Spring, PA 19608
Please check in at the front office.
Contact:
Kati Farrer, Wilson School District Public Information Director, 484-769-0268
Dana Leman, RandomKid Director (in Iowa), 515-224-2012 , 515-314-3065 cell
Sinking Spring, PA--Thursdays are the best day of the week for Green Valley Elementary 6th graders. Every Thursday the students break out into department meetings for a business they've started to ultimately save lives. For two hours each week the students put their education into action by breaking out into marketing, sales, accounting, tech, and design departments and with the guidance of their teachers, they're preparing to market their own bottled water. This Thursday is extra special, because it's the day they will launch their product. A semi-truck carrying 12,960 bottles of water will be arriving at Green Valley Elementary School.
These school-aged entrepreneurs will be unloading the bottled water they developed, named and are marketing. They call their water, “ H20: Help 2 Others”, and they're selling it to raise funds to provide technology that brings safe, clean drinking water to water-stressed areas of the world. They're part of a global partnership with other schools around the USA to help the UN achieve one of its Millennium Development Goals--to reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water by 2015. Currently 1 billion people do not have access to clean water, leading to the deaths of 1.5 million children under the age of 5 annually.
The nonprofit organization that brings these kids together is called RandomKid. Led by a 13-year-old CEO, RandomKid helps any random kid solve real world problems. RandomKid educates, mobilizes, unifies and empowers youth of all backgrounds and abilities to make a tangible, measurable difference in the world, matching their passion with direct impact projects that they choose. By pooling their resources together, kids can actualize their goals for others. Green Valley sixth graders are already planning to be on a video conference in November with the other schools in their global partnership and an entrepreneur in South Africa who invented one of the pumps these children are working to fund.
These young leaders have a plan for global impact which they intend to spread from an inventory of boxes in the basement of Green Valley Elementary School for the betterment of the world. For more information and to purchase water , please go to www.wilsonsd.org or email FicTim@Wilsonsd.org.
About RandomKid (www.randomkid.org)
RandomKid is a 501C3 nonprofit that was founded in 2005 after our then 10 year-old CEO, Talia Leman, united kids across the USA to report over $10 million for hurricane Katrina/Rita relief (www.halloweenhelpers.blogspot.com). In doing so, Talia created a philanthropic force, voice and entity for America's youth, enabling their giving power to be recognized and ranked with top U.S. corporations. Randomkid educates, mobilizes, unifies and empowers youth of all backgrounds and abilities to make a tangible, measurable difference in the world, matching their passion with direct impact projects that they choose. By pooling their resources together, kids can actualize their goals for others.
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