Denton Creek Elementary students collect $4,197 in coins
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This year CoppellHigh School started the club Hope for Africa, which raises funds to help and support different causes in Africa. Denton Creek Elementary teachers, Kathy Struck and Kathy Flatt, got word of the club and saw this as an opportunity to educate the DCE student body. CHS sophomores, Erin Barlow and Kimberly Dalrymple, presented an informative Hope for Africa overview via DCE’s morning talk show, Friday Live. Each DCE student was given a water bottle in which to deposit their loose change. The students had two weeks to fill the water bottle. They brought their coin-filled bottles to DCE’s 5th grade student council Earth Day Assembly. The Denton Creeker’s presented the money raised to Hope for Africa members Blake Mankin, Erin Barlow, Kimberly Dalrymple and Christina Baker. The HFAmembers, eager to calculate the total, took the gift to The Bank of Texas in Coppell, who generously volunteered their coin counter to facilitate the counting process. The HFA members thoroughly enjoyed the experience of watching the total grow. After five hours of tediously placing coins into the coin counter, the grand total amounted to an unbelievable $4,197! This amount surpassed all expectations!
The third graders at DCE contributed a remarkable amount of money to the total. They donated nearly $700 that they earned from their annual economics sale.
The approximate cost to build a water well in Africa is $1,000. Denton Creek students & families personally raised enough money to build four wells. Their generosity is overwhelming!
