Ben's iSearch

Doing this action project was very eye opening to me. I learned so much for instance, 1.5 million children die every year from waterborne illnesses, some people in Africa walk 3 miles each way to get water that normally isn’t even clean, and that children miss a ton of school from those diseases. Another thing that I learned about fundraising was that people want to donate to good causes like ours so us knowing our facts about it was super helpful. During this project I felt really guilty and proud of myself at the same time. I felt guilty, because I have all of the resources that none of the people in Sierra Leone have. I have running water, medicine, hospitals, etc. I also feel proud of myself at the same time, because of the amount of people I am going to be helping. The well serves over 250 people. Also, something else that I learned while doing this that made me proud was that every ten dollars gives a person clean drinking water for an entire year. So, the fact that we are going to raise 4500 dollars is really amazing. Although we have raised 4155 dollars, I do feel really bad. I feel this way, because besides the eighty dollars we raised on Earth Day we have not done anything to get the money besides sending the e-mails to family and friends. Saying that, I think that we are going to try and either do a bake sale or a low water car wash or something since I know that Leah and I, and most likely Ellery and Daniel, feel the same way that I do. Lastly, i am glad that we were able to do this project and I know that it will make a huge difference in peoples lives.