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Health & Fitness

Carpenter Cougars' Awareness-Raiser saves 220 lives!

This year the 5th Grade Carpenter Cougars were Ambassadors of Giving with The Simple Gifts Project.  For their service learning project, they teamed with SGP and helped raise over $400.  More importantly, they changed the lives of more than 220 kids around the world!  Here's what the funds raised were able to do:

They preserved the sight of 154 children at risk for blindness with Vitamin A.  They provided 53 families in Africa with a month of clean water.  They protected 13 moms and babies from malaria with bed nets.  They saved the sight of 2 children with trachoma medicine.

Without their help, some of these families may not have survived.  It's not every day that you can say you helped so many people in such tangible -- even life-saving ways.  

THANK YOU, 5th Grade and everyone who contributed to this very important awareness-raiser!

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