(Vancouver Sun - As anticipation for the 2011 Run for Water in Abbotsford cruises into the final week of registration, students have already made a big difference for the water crisis in Ethiopia.
In the past week, more than 2,000 students from Lower Mainland schools participated in mini Run for Water fun runs on their school grounds, collectively raising more than $7,000 for the cause.
"It has been a great community building activity for all of our students and staff," Mike Ewert, principal of Colleen and Gordie Howe Middle School said Friday. Students at Gordie Howe Middle School used homeroom time over the last few months to cover curriculum developed by the Run for Water Educational Committee.
They learned about the water crisis in Ethiopia as well as how to conserve water in their own homes.
After running three kilometres around Elwood Park on a sunny Friday before the long weekend, Gordie Howe Middle School student Miranda Arnold explains, "I feel bad for the girls who walk for miles to just get dirty water when we get clean water here.
" Her friend Adina Oprea agrees. "We are proud to run this. It is a good cause for our school, and it was good for our school to participate in it."
Other schools participating in the mini Run for Water fun runs are Queen Elizabeth Elementary, Cherry Hill Elementary, Margaret Stenerson, Mission Secondary, Clayburn MIddle School, and Abbotsford Christian Elementary.
In the past week, more than 2,000 students from Lower Mainland schools participated in mini Run for Water fun runs on their school grounds, collectively raising more than $7,000 for the cause.
"It has been a great community building activity for all of our students and staff," Mike Ewert, principal of Colleen and Gordie Howe Middle School said Friday. Students at Gordie Howe Middle School used homeroom time over the last few months to cover curriculum developed by the Run for Water Educational Committee.
They learned about the water crisis in Ethiopia as well as how to conserve water in their own homes.
After running three kilometres around Elwood Park on a sunny Friday before the long weekend, Gordie Howe Middle School student Miranda Arnold explains, "I feel bad for the girls who walk for miles to just get dirty water when we get clean water here.
" Her friend Adina Oprea agrees. "We are proud to run this. It is a good cause for our school, and it was good for our school to participate in it."
Other schools participating in the mini Run for Water fun runs are Queen Elizabeth Elementary, Cherry Hill Elementary, Margaret Stenerson, Mission Secondary, Clayburn MIddle School, and Abbotsford Christian Elementary.
For more information or to register for the run, visit www.runforwater.ca.
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