The water shortage in Peru and other third-world countries became a bit more real to three students in an Advanced Placement environmental science class at Rock Island-Milan School District 41.
According to a press release, three students in the class were inspired by the tale of a girl who walked for miles for hard-to-reach, life-sustaining, albeit dirty, water.
The students, Victoria Bradley, Gabby Hoeper and Kaiya Goodman, tried a similar walk outside the school, carrying glasses of water atop their heads, and “they did not get very far and it was very difficult,” the release said.
| Rock Island-Milan School District 41 website photo
The three students decided to launch a campaign to raise money for water-strapped villages in Peru through the Adopt-a-Drop project. The drive netted $368 in about a week – enough for a year of clean water, the release stated.
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