Lemont Students Collect 2,000 Books for Kids in Africa

Each week, Lemont Patch will seek suggestions from readers for individual kids, youth groups, teens and even sports teams that wow us with their accomplishments.

We want to hear about these amazing children and teens and select one each week as the Patch Whiz Kid.  Submit your nomination in our comment box below or e-mail the information to Local Editor Amanda Luevano at amanda@patch.com. Be sure to include all of the information included below.

And without further ado, this week's Whiz Kids are...

Whiz Kids’ Names: Olivia Hetrick, Ashley Lehenbauer, Claire Burner, Tyler Barnacle and Mallory Douglass

Whiz Kids’ Grade: 8th

Whiz Kids' School: Trinity Lutheran School in Burr Ridge (will attend in the fall)

Accomplishment: Hetrick, Lehenbauer, Burner, Barnacle and Douglass recently collected 2,000 books to the African Library Project, a nonprofit organization that organizes book drives in the United States to build libraries in rural Africa.  The donation from Trinity Lutheran was recently shipped to New Orleans, and will eventually be sent to two libraries in Ghana.

Key to Awesomeness: The Lemont eighth-graders participated in the African Library Project to realize part of their school's mission statement, which addresses the importance of international service. Additionally, the 2,000 books collected far exceeded their original goal of 1,000.

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