Cookies for a Cause, or You Go Kathryn!

Kathryn is my project girl. She is forever imagining ideas for very involved ordeals, sketching out plans and envisioning wild possibilities. This is a wonderful trait, though the mommy who has to approve and enact the plans at times grows weary in the implementation. SO, my growing application is to help K FOCUS, pick ONE thing that we can pour our energies into, and carry it through to completion. In other words, dream all you want kid, but mommy can only handle so much!

Below is the fruit of this semester's "project." In homeschool we studied about water quality and the impact of poor nutrition and disease among societies that do not have access to clean water. We learned about an organization called Water is Basic, whose mission statement is: "to empower the local leadership of Southern Sudan to bring the gift of clean water to their own people." In Sudan, over 70% of the population have no access to safe water. As of last week, WIB has completed the drilling for 138 wells in local villages!

So, in conjunction with our last homeschool co-op day, K arranged a bake sale. We baked 3 different types of cookies (this is about my max!), and invited other families to bake. We calculated that if we sold everything we baked, we would earn about $50 USD. But people gave over and above that, and we were able to raise about $150.

K's favorite part of the project was (not the baking... perhaps next time we will not choose a baking project), but being in charge at the sale table, answering questions about the project, and taking the money for the donation box. I didn't remember to take pictures until we were almost sold out, but there was a mountain of cookies!










































You go girl!

K tells me that she wants to take over my blog, and post all her ideas here, especially the ones mommy says we can't possibly make happen ourselves. Maybe YOU can! :)