Apple trees, orange trees, mango trees, and other healthy fruit trees provide the vitamins and nutrients growing kids need.
A fruit tree orchard can produce enough fruit for vital income in just two to three years. Tree seedlings from the fully-grown fruit trees can then be used to help another family lift themselves out of poverty.
Besides continually multiplying, your green gift is also good for the environment. Planting fruit trees prevents deforestation — a major cause of soil erosion that leads to poor farmland and devastating floods.
In Ethiopia, the gift of fruit trees helped Bezalem Dinku start an apple tree farm that moved his family from poverty to abundance. “I was weak and unable to stand on my feet,” he says. “But with . . . World Vision support, I am to walk with my feet and [be a] source of income for the others too.”
Bezalem used to earn 90 cents a day — not enough to feed his family of five. “We shouldered all the burdens that poverty could bear,” he says. But the gift of fruit trees and agricultural training from World Vision changed his family’s life forever.
Now his fruit tree business employs three people and brings in as much $23,000 in just two harvests. His three children are healthy, well-nourished, attend the best school in the area, and are dreaming big about the future.
SHOE BOX PACKING PARTY!!! November 19, 2:30-5:30 CCHS Cafeteria
FREE RICE A SUCCESS!! The club raised $175, and participants accumulated 109,250 grains of rice to feed the hungry.
Fall, 2010 participants: Kaylyn Citriniti, Erich Horner, Felicia Welch, Eddy Kishko, Erika Wetherby, Tarecka Payne, Jordan Tucker, Anthony Luciano, Sarah Starkel, Derek Schreiner, Alex Ossowski, Kathryn Billings, Allie Bijowski, Nicole Framiglio, Katherine McNeely, Molly Mokler
Congratulations to the student champions!
Erich Horner (a winner from last year's competition) won 2 rounds and a McDonalds Gift Card. He accumulated 13,010 grains of rice. Molly Mokler won 7 rounds, dominating the competition and winning the grand prize. She took home a CCHS sweatshirt, donated by the Booster Club, a STAND tshirt, and a McDonalds gift card. She accumulated 13,750 grains of rice. Most Rice Accumulated in a session: Erich Horner- 1,940 grains Most Cumulative Rice: Molly Mokler- 13,750 grains
(click on the picture) The rice is paid for by the advertisers whose names you see on the bottom of your vocabulary screen. This is regular advertising for these companies, but it is also something more. Through their advertising at FreeRice, these companies support both learning (free vocabulary for everyone) and reducing hunger (free rice for the hungry). When you play the game, advertisements appear on the bottom of your screen. The money generated by these advertisements is then used to buy the rice. So by playing, you generate the money that pays for the rice donated to hungry people. The rice is distributed by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). The World Food Program is the world's largest food aid agency, working with over 1,000 other organizations in over 75 countries. In addition to providing food, the World Food Program helps hungry people to become self-reliant so that they escape hunger for good. Wherever possible, the World Food Program buys food locally to support local farmers and the local economy. You are encouraged to visit the United Nations World Food Programto learn more about their successful approach to ending hunger. About 25,000 people die each day from hunger or hunger-related causes, most of them children. To a mother or father watching a loved child die in their arms from hunger, the rice you donate is more precious than anything in the world.
Jake Krug- President Allie Bijowski- Secretary Philip Ossowski- Marketing Committees: Whitney Cooper, Katherine McNeely, Marion Quattlebaum, Nikki Hendrickson
STAND'S CHRISTMAS GIFT:
Life-saving medicines and supplies Every day, thousands of children die because they do not have access to basic medicines that could save their lives. STAND has donated $1,400 worth of medicines that will be shipped and distributed- essential pharmaceuticals and medical supplies like: antibiotics, antifungals, antiparasitic drugs, deworming medications, disposable syringes, gastrointestinal drugs, painkillers, and surgical supplies.
"STAND FOR HUMANITY" drive November 16-20 Visit the website http://www.starbucksloveproject.com/#/love/, and create an online drawing. Starbucks will donate 5 cents to the Global Fund to help medicate patients in developing countries. It just takes a few minutes, and is fun!!
FREE RICE COMPETITION November 19, 2:30-4:30 in :20 increments
The Free Rice Competition was a great success! There were 49 participants who accumulated 79,820 grains of rice to feed the hungry. Congratulations to the students who won the following categories.
Most Rice Accumulated in a session: Josh Vilchis
Most Cumulative Rice: Erich Horner
Highest Level Achieved: Eddy Kishko
(click on the picture) The rice is paid for by the advertisers whose names you see on the bottom of your vocabulary screen. This is regular advertising for these companies, but it is also something more. Through their advertising at FreeRice, these companies support both learning (free vocabulary for everyone) and reducing hunger (free rice for the hungry). When you play the game, advertisements appear on the bottom of your screen. The money generated by these advertisements is then used to buy the rice. So by playing, you generate the money that pays for the rice donated to hungry people. The rice is distributed by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). The World Food Program is the world's largest food aid agency, working with over 1,000 other organizations in over 75 countries. In addition to providing food, the World Food Program helps hungry people to become self-reliant so that they escape hunger for good. Wherever possible, the World Food Program buys food locally to support local farmers and the local economy. You are encouraged to visit the United Nations World Food Programto learn more about their successful approach to ending hunger. About 25,000 people die each day from hunger or hunger-related causes, most of them children. To a mother or father watching a loved child die in their arms from hunger, the rice you donate is more precious than anything in the world.
2009-2010 School Year:
Thanks to all those who donned blue hair to promote genocide awareness!
And especial thanks to Melissa Hartsell and Aurelia Myers for volunteering your time to promote our cause!
Deadline: Have your boxes with labels to Mrs. Parker's room by NOVEMBER 20. How to Pack a Shoe Box Gift Pack using these simple instructions. There are labels for your box too.
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