NORWAY – By selling their artwork, students at the Guy E. Rowe Elementary School raised more than $4,000 cash in one week to help victims of the tsunami disaster in Asia.
“It must be like some kind of record, or something,” said student Robby Emrich, who helped organize the relief effort along with other members of the school’s Bully Busters team.
On Monday, the artwork lined the hallways, a testament to the enthusiastic response to the Children Helping Children relief effort.
Assistant Principal Kim Ramharter said the students brought a sketch of their artwork home and encouraged family and friends to bid on it. Bids ranged anywhere from $5 to $50, she said.
The students also raised money by creating quilting squares with positive messages that were then stitched together into a quilt by art teacher Eva Kosun. The teachers chipped in to buy the quilt, which is hanging in the staff lounge.
Ramharter said other SAD 17 schools have also embarked on tsunami relief fund-raising efforts. All the cash will go directly to UNICEF, which is running a children’s emergency appeal focusing on providing safe drinking water and preventing malnutrition.
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