Help For High Water Update

Help For High Water

Last Monday, the Executive Service Council (ESC) launched their Help for High Water Campaign—an initiative to raise funds and awareness for multiple disasters that have transpired recently. Victims of hurricane Irma, hurricane Maria, and hurricane Harvey are among those who will be receiving letters of support from our elementary, middle, and high schoolers, who will be writing notes of encouragement in their Spanish and English classrooms. Funds will be sent to two key beneficiaries, Goonj, a non-profit that works in India, and BRAC, an organization with roots in Bangladesh. Both of these are holding relief campaigns for flooding in their respective regions, with focuses on immediate relief and sustainable recovery, leaving the villages and urban area they work in stronger than they were prior to the floods.

Thursday, September 21 was the International Day of Peace Good Vibes Day, a collaboration between high school's Peer Support, ESC, and Peace Initiative. A mini coin craze between houses Ethon, Aquila, and Andor raised around $500, and over 100 letters were written to victims of flooding in the US and Caribbean. This past week, a water carnival was held in the foyer and a guest speaker on climate change was brought in by Global Issues Network. A Help for High Water team has been assembled, involving dedicated, service-oriented individuals in the planning processes of the campaign.

Within the middle school, a large-scale coin craze was launched this past Thursday. The competition, between houses and grade-levels, will last until Tuesday, October 10. If you are a parent of a middle schooler, encourage them to add coins to their team's box to gain points or bills to the domains of opposing teams to sabotage their progress by detracting points. The grand prize for the winning house of each grade is a bubble tea pizza party. On a grassroots level, the Roots and Shoots Club, MS GIN, NYAKA, and Peer Counsel Charity Committee have joined together to facilitate further middle school oriented fundraisers and organize a number of presentations centering upon climate change in relation to the recent disasters and SAS's role in reducing our carbon footprint.

Backpack mail was sent out in the elementary school, highlighting individual classroom fundraising initiatives and future means through which to get involved with the campaign as an elementary parent.

At Saturday's Eagle Society soiree, over $2,000 was raised for the campaign, thanks to the generosity of numerous donors.

As the second week of our fundraiser comes to a close and we inch closer and closer towards our monetary goal of S$75,000 we ask you to support the initiatives of your students through donating in one of the red "Service Council" boxes in all administrative offices or through our online donation link: http://ift.tt/2ybYW5x. Check out the aforementioned link for updates as well!

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