Last June, Bradford second graders held their 7th Annual
WaterThon in Mountainside Park, raising $2,982.91 for The Project
Solution, a donor community founded in 2009. The mission of The Project
Solution is to encourage philanthropy and to create quantifiable change
in distressed areas of the world.
Recently, Bradford received
an update on their efforts. Local volunteers in Indonesia worked hard to
install a water tank at a school, a high capacity rainwater catchment
system fitted with a filtration system designed to remove impurities,
which results in clean, safe drinking water.
“This project is
situated at the Talise Elementary School located in the region of
Tambun, in North Sulawesi,” said an email to Bradford from The Project
Solution. “Thanks to you and your generous support, over 200 people now
have access to clean water including students, teachers, and the local
community.”
In conjunction with the fundraiser, students learned about the water
cycle and water scarcity issues around the world. The event itself had
all of the second graders walking a small outdoor loop in Mountainside
Park while carrying one gallon jugs of water to give the students some
small sense of the challenges that other children face around the world
in transporting water.
Read more about this year’s event.