DROUGHT AID: Pearson High School matrics, from left, Caleb Schoonraad, 18, Arno van Jaarsveld, 17, Georgia Emms, 17, Candice Stock, 17, and Bevan Matthysen, 17, are challenging other schools to collect bottled water for drought aid. Picture: IVOR MARKMAN
AS the Eastern Cape interior finds itself in the grip of a major drought, two Nelson Mandela Bay schools have undertaken to collect water for those in need – and are challenging other Bay schools to do the same.
Pearson High and Kabega Park Primary schools both launched a week-long water collection project yesterday.
Former Pearson High teacher Wendy Rossouw, 63, is the brains behind the project, which will tie in with the school’s 90th birthday celebrations taking place later this year.
“The whole idea behind the collection is to celebrate Pearson, the whole aspect of giving is something which is woven into our social fibres,” Rossouw said.
“We are very blessed at Pearson in terms of facilities and teachers. We always have a motto, ‘The school that cares’, and it’s a big part of Pearson to have a social-outreach component.”
The project is a school house initiative and each of the five houses at the school will aim to collect at least 90 five-litre bottles of water, with the school looking to collect a total of 500 bottles by the end of the week.
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