Water Challenge: Paper Beads

Today Art Club had our first paper bead-making workshop. We are collaborating to make hand-made paper beads in order to help bring clean water to villages in Tanzania. For every 20 beads that we make, we help bring clean water to one person in a village. It's so hard to believe that water, something that so many of us take for granted, is scarce throughout our world. Nearly 800 million people in the world live without clean water. 

In northern Tanzania, water and sanitation systems in schools are highly overburdened or non-existent. With the lack of clean water, hygiene and sanitation at schools, students increasingly miss class and often abandon their education altogether. Women and children spend up to four hours a day collecting water from sources likely to make them sick. About 200,000 children die each year after contracting waterborne diseases.

In order to help, Art Club is making beads that the Bezos Family Foundation through Students Rebuild will match with funding. 

I am so proud of my students and how awesome our beads turned out! Here are some photos from today's meeting~