A Small School Making a BIG Difference

Sophia is one of 63 students at Cypress Park Primary School in West Vancouver who has committed to making a positive impact on other children by raising $8,000 to drill a water well in Sudan, Africa. Sophia, who recently turned eight-years-old, came up with the idea of swimming her own swim-a-thon to raise money outside the classroom.

Sophia told us, “I feel lucky to be able to swim in clean water. Children in Africa don’t even have clean water to drink. Some have to walk several kilometers just to find drinking water. I didn’t know how far I could swim, but I swam 2.5 km in 1 ½ hours! It was really hard, but I’m glad I did it.”

Congratulations Sophia – kids like you and your classmates are changing the world!

If you would like to support Sophia and the children at Cypress Park in reaching their $8,000 goal, donations can be made here. As always, 100% of all donations will go directly to this project and tax receipts will be issued.

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11 Responses to “A Small School Making a BIG Difference”

  1. Tina Davis says:
    May 27, 2011 at 8:10 am

    Excellent – Way to go Sophia :-)

  2. britta says:
    May 27, 2011 at 11:41 am

    so cool!

  3. G'ma and G'dad Hartvikson says:
    May 27, 2011 at 4:39 pm

    We are really proud of you Sophia.

  4. Thomas says:
    May 27, 2011 at 7:04 pm

    Yay Sophia! What a nice thing to do for other children.

  5. Sera says:
    May 27, 2011 at 8:26 pm

    That is so great Sophia! …English Channel here we come! ;)

  6. Cynthia Hooper says:
    May 27, 2011 at 10:44 pm

    Sophia, you are awesome!!!!!!

  7. A+L Hartvikson says:
    May 28, 2011 at 7:14 am

    We’re really proud of you, dear granddaughter.

  8. Ellen Vargas says:
    May 29, 2011 at 5:13 pm

    Hi Sophia,

    You’re such a wonderful responsible kid to be doing all this. You’re social awereness is amazing and you’re parents must be truly proud of you. We have not met yet but we too here in the Phils. (your relatives are also proud of you). Hope you could come over here in the Phils.and see how lucky we are here to have a clean free flowing water just in our Grandma’s backyard.

    Regards,

    Ellen Vargas – Your Mom’s cousin

  9. Frank Weber says:
    June 1, 2011 at 2:26 am

    Hello Sophia,
    do you remember us, we have been on vacancy in the appartment in Riva the last two years. This is a really superb foto of you :-) and it is such a good idea!!! A colleague of mine supports also a campaign for clean water in Africa and we collect money in our company bo build new wells in some villages there, for us sometimes unbelievable what are really the basic needs in such poor countries.
    Big hug for you
    Birgit&Frank

  10. Juliet Mansell says:
    June 2, 2011 at 6:36 am

    Way to go – You must be so very proud of your achievement. And good job Mum and Dad xxx

  11. Alda says:
    June 15, 2011 at 5:24 am

    A-ma-zing!!! “swim in clean water” to offer “clean water to drink” – water really changes everything!
    And keep smiling that way to everything you might do in your life! Congrats Sophia :)

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