| Posted 2/23/2010 at 8:05 AM by PeaceJam Bot | |
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 Life Straw's for Haiti
Project Created: Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Project Leader: Scott F
Location: Tallahassee, United States of America
Project Goal: To rasie money and buy Life Straws and donate them to Haiti so they can have clean and safe drinking water. A Life Straw is a filter that is about the size of a large straw, you can drink out of bad or old water with out getting sick from it. Becasue the Life Straw blocks out contaminants in the water.
Project Cause: After the deadly earthquake in Haiti many Haitiains were and still are with out a good supply of water.
Project Plan: 1. Raise mony to buy Life Straws(by fundraising), 2. Buy as many Life Straws as we can and educate people in our coummumity and school about places that don't have as much water as we do.
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| Posted 2/23/2010 at 8:26 PM by Kathy L (kbleckey) | |
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| My 8 year old son has been researching how to collect money from his school for the same project. Once you raise the money, where will you buy the lifestraws? looks to me like you have to go through the rotary club. |
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| Posted 2/24/2010 at 12:08 PM by Jason G (LincolnHSPeaceJam) | |
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 Hi Kathy,
Perhaps we can brainstorm together for this project if your son is doing the same thing. We're still researching your question, but we'll let you know what we come up with. Our big question is how to make this project sustainable. Any ideas?
jg |
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| Posted 2/24/2010 at 6:15 PM by Kathy L (kbleckey) | |
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| Do you mean sustainable as in continuing to raise money for the issue? after reading about the tapproject I had an idea of connecting the fundraiser to drinking straws that we usually get for free with our drinks. using local businesses to have an optional "fee" for a straw. My son doesn't think the kids in his school would connect at thier age because they aren't using straws, but maybe collectively in all of our schools? march 21st begins World Water week, so i would like to start something quickly. |
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| Posted 2/24/2010 at 6:18 PM by Kathy L (kbleckey) | |
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| I really like your idea of selling water bottles. |
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