In the state with over 11 thousand lakes and a river that runs right thru the county, students at St. John the Baptist Catholic school in Vermilion took on a project to assure children in drought-stricken Kitui, Kenya may soon have enough life sustaining water. Students in Pre-K thru the 6th grade participated in a partnership with the Living Water campaign to support building water tanks, dams and other holding areas to aid yearlong water availability in this harsh part of the world. Joyce Lorentz, a member of the St. Pius V parish in Cannon Falls, is a volunteer who has traveled to the African country, praised the students for raising just over 1500 dollars, over 2 times their original goal. Children collected coins in water bottles, with an additional donation of 300 provided to the total from the parish St. Anne’s Council of Catholic Women.
St Johns School Shares Pennies
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