4th Annual Walk for Water raises money for Flint water crisis
The Middle School’s 4th annual Walk for Water, raising money this year to help with the drinking water crisis in Flint, also served to remind students how hard life can be in other parts of the world.
Each seventh-grader carried six liters of water four miles, which also is the average amount and distance many women in the developing world walk every day in order to bring fresh water to their families. Eighth-graders who participated carried food donations destined for Food Gatherers.
The event began Friday morning when students gathered in the All School Forum and put three 2-liter bottles on their backs. They set out for Parker Mill County Park, four miles away, at about 8:30 a.m.
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One of the goals of 7th Grade science at Greenhills is helping students realize they’re global citizens whose actions can have a positive impact on the world, according to science teacher Ann Novak. The heavily laden trek to Parker Mill helps students understand the burden many women and children face in the developing world, where often the quest for clean water is the reason girls leave school.
“For this one day, we experience what girls and women do every day in places like Africa where fresh water is scarce,” Novak said.
Students are still raising money to help with the Flint crisis, along with cases of bottled water to donate directly. Donors may drop off donations at Greenhills with Novak or one of her two fellow faculty organizers, Media Specialist Jan Toth-Chernin or Diversity Director Nadine Hall, until June 10.
