Immokalee Workers Response

Immokalee Workers Response

Immokalee Workers Response

Immokalee Workers Response

Immokalee Workers Response

Immokalee Workers Response

Immokalee Workers Response

Calleva Farm

Prevent Teen Pregnancy March

Seedfolks on Peabody

Seedfolks

Shanan's Poetry Anthology

Karina's Poetry Anthology

Jordanie's Poetry Anthology

Arsene's Poetry Anthology

Christian's Poems

Idrissou's Poetry Anthology

Francisco's Poetry Anthology

Edwin's Poetry Anthology

Grand total: 108,053 pennies!

Today we went to TD bank and the people were so nice there! We raised a total of $1,080.53 or 108,053 pennies! Wow!

Team 3 raised $163.88
Team 7 raised $88.75
Team 6 raised $88.08
Team 1 raised $86.75
Team 2 raised $66.59
Team 5 raised $40.06
Team 4 raised $37.42

Before the campaign, when students were asked, "when you see a penny do you pick it up?" most students said no. Now we can see a penny can make a difference!

The best part of the campaign was all of the students working together to collect their spare change and donate it to a great cause. Everyone can donate a penny and everyone did--and more!

With this money, we can pay for a teacher in a village similar to Korphe for more than 3 years! We have given the gift of education and it feels good!

Dress UP day and pizza celebration for Team 3 winners

WoW! Everyone looks great in their dress UP clothes. The Team 3 pizza party was a huge success. It was a great way to celebrate the winning team's generosity and participation.
A special thanks goes out to the 6th graders for helping pass out the food and soda to the Team 3 teachers. You all RoCk!

Dress Down Day a Success!

Paul students RoCk! We raised $510 on our dress down day today. Almost 100% of students participated by donating $1 to Pennies for Peace and earning themselves the opportunity to "dress down" this Friday. One student was generous enough to donate her entire $5 bill to the cause. Paul students are giving, generous, and they look cute when they're out of uniform too! =)

Busy at work

First week a success!

It's the end of the first week of the Pennies for Peace campaign and students at Paul have already raised over $150 to go towards building schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan. A special shout out goes to Ms. Hundley's homeroom for collecting the most pennies-- 1,595 pennies to be exact. We're excited to see what Week 2 of the campaign will bring!

Jordanie and Arsene write a newspaper article:

This week Paul PCS has started to kick off its Pennies for Peace fundraiser. On Monday a committed group of Paul students called the, “The Pennies for Peace committee”, showed a video they had produced to the student body. The video explained why Paul students should help raise money to help build schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

7th grader, Arsene Noe, said, “They don’t have the same opportunities that we have in the U.S. So we want to raise money to help build schools and give them the opportunities that we have.” A lot of students asked, “Why just donate pennies?” Jordanie Ogu another 7th grader at Paul replied, “In the U.S. a penny isn’t worth anything. But in Afghanistan and Pakistan a penny can buy a pencil, and $1 can buy a teacher for a day. A penny is something that all students can afford to donate.”

The campaign lasts the entire month of March and so far students from all grade levels have been bringing in their spare change to their homeroom teachers. When they asked why they are donating their money to kids on the other side of the world that they don’t even know, the students replied, “Everyone deserves an education.”

christian jake balorio

by christian jake balorio

the penny for peace was a success and it was going well and i donated this morning "thank you for this idea Ms. Ventimiglia and thank you for making it happened and make it possible.
we should donate pennies so we can save afghanistan and pakistan kids and save there education too. you can help by donating pennies so ask or donate your pennies beacuse not only you can have a pizza party and more you could save the kids from afghanistan and pakistan.

so donate now!!!!

This video inspired me alot!! i want to donate all my money to afghanistan and i think that all girls should have equal rights to go to school!!

Pennies for Peace