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Students at St. Joseph Catholic School raided their piggy banks and worked odd jobs around the house to earn pennies for the annual Penny Drive in February 2007. Each year the Student Council, made up of 7th and 8th grade students, chooses a project to donate toward and advertises it to the school community. In a two-week period, students at St. Joseph Catholic School raised $3,348 to purchase mosquito nets for a village in Kenya, Africa. They were astonished to learn that two million children die every year from mosquito-borne malaria. Father Crispin Okoth, a priest at St. Joseph Church in Vancouver, is a native of this small Kenya village that the children chose to help. He will use the money raised to purchase mosquito nets in an effort to protect his villagers from the malaria-causing mosquitoes. “I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to the entire school community for having shown such a great love for the poor in my village. What a wonderful thing to do, to educate the children about the importance of reaching out to help other children in a far-off country! I am proud of all the children from our school here. I will go to our little village school and talk to children there about children at St. Joseph School and how they gave money to buy the nets. I intend also to take some little drawings and letters from here to children in Africa, and likewise do the same when I come back.” The students’ goal for the annual Penny Drive is to raise awareness among the school community and encourage them to help those less fortunate. The children are excited that their efforts will help children in Kenya and someone so dear to them as Father Crispin. St. Joseph
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