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Susan and Sev Hoch Directors of The Water Team, Photograph by: Handout, for The Province

Read the article about The Water Team, “B.C. Without Borders: Giving a gift of clean water: Water Team funds wells for Africa’s poorest” By Elaine O’Connor, The Province August 10, 2009

Rani Dee, Youth Chapter Director accepts the donation from Eli and Adam students at Talmud Torah School during the Mitzvah of Valuing Philanthropy (MVP) 2009 Ceremony of Giving. Their amazing fundraising efforts helped build a water well for a secondary school in Liberia

Metal Water Bottle Sale - A Huge Success!

Students at West Point Grey Secondary hand over a cheque to Water Team Director, Severin Hoch. The students spent long hours of selling high quality, thermal bottles, wrote countless emails and put in lots of hard work to raise money for a school in Liberia. 

Youth Chapter

In January 2009, I went out to Abbotsford to accept a cheque for the fundraising efforts of the students at St. John Brebeuf Regional Secondary School. Paul Fraser (the principal who brought The Water Team’s efforts to his school system) and I met with Alan Ferguson (the teacher coordinator of this project) and the grade twelve students in their library. We had our new huge banner on display. The students were wearing their blue T-shirts with their water logo on it that they had designed and bought for $14.95 and sold for $20.

They had done many fundraising events - including a “recycled fashion show” that made the papers twice, a “rent a grad for a day” auction, an “empty out your wallets at lunch” event that alone brought in $400!

Paul talked to the students and told them how this whole initiative began with Rani, our Director of the Youth Chapter. I thanked the students so much for caring about people they have never met and who are suffering 1/2 a world away. I gave them blown up photos of the village in Liberia where their well will be drilled - Kerkula village. I showed them the old contaminated well. I told them that we’d send them photos of the completed well so they could see the fruits of their labours. Then they presented me with a 4 ft by 2 ft cheque for $4000!!! We had expected $3000 so this was overwhelming!

It was a totally inspiring experience to see what students with so much energy and creativity can do in such a short time. – Susan