H20 Service Learning Project

How to donate:

If you would like to help fund the water project for our partner school in Badarpur, India, checks can be made out to 'H2O for Life' and sent to the high school care of H2O.  Donations are tax deductible and receipts will be sent for all donations.

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We are now officially sponsoring a school water project in Badapur, New Dehli, India. While the infrastructure of the school itself is in fairly good condition, they have no working toilets or running water so the students and teachers must currently go outside or in the street to use the bathroom. 

Water Centric, an NGO focused on bringing sanitation and hygiene education to schools around the world in a water crisis, has contacted the H2O organization for help to find a school to fund the Badapur project. Water Centric has identified the school in Badapur as one for which funding a sanitation project could make a meaningful impact on the community’s future. The total cost of their sanitation project is $6,000 and includes building a connection to the public sewer system, a connection to a public septic system, new bathrooms, installing hand-washing basins with running water and adapting existing technology.

Our hope this year at Whitefish Bay is to both learn more about the global water crisis and while finding ways to raise the $6,000 dollars to fund Badapur’s project. We are in email contact with the coordinator of the project in Badapur, Lotika Paintal, and have received pictures and letters from several of the students in the school.   While the non-profit H2O facilitates our partnership with the school and provides many helpful resources on the global water crisis, they will be sending EVERY DOLLAR we raise directly to the Water Centric project in Badapur. 

We have started off the year by making students aware of the project.  We would like teacher, student, and community involvement in this project and see it as an opportunity for us all to work toward a common goal, hopefully having a community-building experience in doing so. The teachers' job is not necessarily to be raising the money from our students, but rather to be asking our students to become aware of the interconnectedness of the global community and to help them find ways to raise the money from the Whitefish Bay community both within and outside of the school.

 

Click below to play a video of students from our partner school

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Fast Facts for MCD Primary School:

Located in Badarpur, New Delhi, India

All girls school established in 1948

996 students & 25 teachers

No working toilets - students must go in the street

No water connection - water is brought from a communal pump in the village