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Students raise money to improve South African school

(via www.triblocal.com) Emerson Middle School students Kirsten Ryer and Emma Bauer, both 13, admit they never thought twice about getting a cool drink of water from a nearby fountain or washing their hands in a sink.

But after learning about life in Africa and partnering with an impoverished school in rural South Africa, they realize how fortunate they are to have access to those things and what lengths people in other countries go to in order to obtain clean water.

“Here, you can just turn on a faucet and there, they don’t have water to wash their hands,” said Ryer, a seventh-grade student. “It’s kinda of sad to think they walk three miles there and back for water and we just walk down the hall.”