The O Ambassadors Club at Manitou Park Elementary School will hold its second annual walk-a-thon for West Africa on Wednesday, May 20. The club will sell paper "shoes” for $1, promoting the theme Walk in Someone Else’s Shoes. The students will get pledges for walking laps in the park and will collect “change for change.” The students will be walking during their recesses. The first recess begins at 11:20 a.m. and last recess is at 1:35 p.m.
This year’s fundraising will help build a secondary school in Manitou Park’s adopted community of Domeabra, Ghana, West Africa. Last year, the O Ambassadors Club raised $1,500 for development projects in a small village in Sierra Leone.
The O Ambassadors program is an international program jointly sponsored by Oprah’s Angel Network and Kids Can Free The Children. Manitou Park applied last year to start up a club and was selected.
Contact Earla Reed, fourth-grade teacher, at 253.571.5300 for more information.