Carden Country School students send food to Africa
Published 11:15 am Friday, May 13, 2016
Carden Country School students in grades K-8 set up work stations and collaboratively measured, sealed and boxed 1,200 meals destined for needy children in Sierra Leone.
Kyle Donn, community development manager for Children of the Nations, and Kyler Barnum, an AmeriCorp intern for the organization, arrived at the school with rice, beans, spices and protein powder which students purchased with money that they had raised.
When approached by the organization earlier in the year, Carden Country School students jumped at the chance to help.
Kareese Pippinger, Carden’s eighth-grade student representative, managed to inspire her team and created several fun and profitable ways to raise the much needed funds.
“It was really fun to actually package the meals, but when I thought about the children who would get the needed food, I was thankful that I could help in this small way,” said fourth-grader Grey Peters.
Carden Country School students have been sponsoring Escarly, a girl from the Dominican Republic, through Children of the Nations for the past five years, and feel a close connection with the nonprofit’s mission statement of believing it just takes one person to change the life story of a child. They write to Escarly regularly and receive letters from her as well.
Sierra Leone had been hard hit with an outbreak of Ebola, and for the past year, sponsored orphans were unable to attend school.
Donn and Barnum expect to make the trip to Sierra Leone in July to deliver the much needed meals along with the well-wishes and prayers from the students at Carden Country School.
