This month, Stephen Bretz, a teacher at the independent Brighton School, worked with students on charity projects that benefit Uganda.
Bretz has two eighth-grade community service classes. One class partnered with the organization Invisible Children and collected over 1,300 books that were sent to Uganda. The other class did a coin drive to purchase food to send to Uganda through the organization Children of the Nations.
On Jan. 15, elementary and middle school students at the school packaged 1500 meals to go to Uganda.
The students helped set up the food stations and package meals. During the morning different elementary classes that donated coins had about 30 minutes to package the food and also see what they contributed to.
“I wanted the students to have an opportunity to help hands on and without simply asking for money,” Bretz said.
Children of the Nations works in Sierra Leone, Malawi, Dominican Republic, and Uganda. They transport and ship the food. The meals are sealed lentils, rice and spices that need only hot water to become a meal.
The eighth grade students who participated are: Aiden Bates, Ian Gaither, Arista Honey, Lauren Stevens, Megan Marshall, Jake Gross, Mark Elder, Sydney Kaeppel, Kaitlyn Angrove, Hee Jai Lee and Elijah Parker.
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