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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2017
Vol. 5 Edition 50
Mary Beth Corcoran/The Chatham Voice
Students at St. Ursula’s School in Chatham took part in a Water Walk event recently to raise awareness of the plight of African children walking miles to find water to take back to their families. This group brainstorms ideas for being good stewards while they wait to go outdoors and carry jugs of water to know a little of what it is like to have to carry water for miles.
Walk a mile in their shoes
St. Ursula’s School students take part in the Water Walk
By Mary Beth Corcoran mary@chathamvoice.com
Learning to walk a mile, or four, in another person’s shoes was the lesson at St. Ursula’s School in Chatham recently. All of the students took part in the Water Walk, an event to make students aware of how far
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children in countries in places such as Africa have to go just to get water for drinking and cooking for their families to survive. Organizers Stephanie McCaffery-Lachine and Trisha Vanderenden, Grade 4-5 teachers, involved all the students to help them appreciate how accessible
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clean water is to us, and to empathize with those who don’t have that same privilege. “Kids in Africa walk as far as four miles to a water source and four miles back and sometimes it’s not even clean water,” McCaffery-Lachine told the assembled students. “Some of these kids are
as young as four years old.” Reminding the students how fortunate we are to be able to turn on a tap and have clean water, Vanderenden said we all take water for granted and need to learn to use water more responsibly. Continued on page 2
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The dynamic Detailleur duo was at it again in support of the Salvation Army recently. Alyah and Noah, 11 and 13, again donated non-perishable food items to the local Salvation Army in an effort to help stock the shelves of the food bank just before the holidays. It’s the fourth straight year the local children sought support for the Salvation Army, and if their effort continues to snowball as it has, they’ll need
to make more than one trip next year. In 2016, Alyah and Noah’s collected donations filled the back seat of the family pickup truck. This time around, they filled the entire truck bed. The effort moved Capt. Karen Holland of the Salvation Army to tears. “It’s huge; the generosity of this community is huge,” she said. “And when I see the young ones doing it too, it really means a lot. We have lots of people who really need this.”
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