Middlebury Elementary School Participates In Youth Uplift Challenge

From Region 15 School District: Students at Middlebury Elementary School have been working on coloring and cutting out traced hands in the Media Center to send to Students Rebuild as part of their Youth Uplift Challenge, a program to inspire young people worldwide to connect, learn and take collective action on critical global issues.

For each hand, the Bezos Family Foundation will donate $1.90 to Save the Children’s programs, which will help children from Nicaragua and Indonesia to go to school and gain access to mentors in order to achieve their dreams.

The Challenges requires young people to create a simple, symbolic object which the foundation matches with funding. This approach allows students of all ages, backgrounds and in countries around the world to take action and see change on international concerns.

MES students created 790 hands, raising $1501 for Students Rebuild. Visit the website www.studentsrebuild.org for more information.

Image Courtesy of Middlebury Elementary School