Three local students have helped some of their peers halfway around the globe.
Roland-Grise Middle School eighth-graders Tyler Glatt, James Hardy and Daniel Morrison have raised enough funds to provide 15 Malawian children with scholarships that pay for a year of education, daily meals, school supplies and a school uniform.
“We have it great here in the United States of America,” Glatt said. “Transportation, housing, food, water and a top-notch education opportunity are just some of the luxuries we enjoy. 7,989 miles to the east sits the country of Malawi, Africa. They don’t have many of the luxuries we enjoy here in the states.”
To raise the needed money, the boys sold “Support Malawian Education” T-shirts. By the end of their fundraising campaign, they had sold 59 shirts and collected a total of $900.
“Working through a school community service project to support education in other schools is a special opportunity,” Glatt said. “It gave us a chance to change the world in a little way, but that’s where it starts. Giving children a chance to go to school changes their lives, and puts a brighter future ahead of them. When people of the world work together, we develop new technologies, friendships and better partnerships that keeps the world as one.”