This year the week before winter break the students at the Alexander Dawson School once again participated in the hunger banquet. The hunger banquet is a tradition at the Alexander Dawson School that has been celebrated for a long time. It is our way of appreciating and being grateful for what we have and trying to experience a small piece of what it is like for those who do not have enough to eat. This year a few of the students from our SLAM group volunteered to help raise money to buy mosquito nets for families in Botswana. The students sat at a table to collected donations and spread the work about Malaria and our SLAM group. For a donation of five dollars the donors were given a blue ribbon. At the hunger banquet we collected a total of $160 dollars to donate towards buying mosquito nets. We will be doing more fund-raising this coming spring and hopefully it will be as successful as last year.
Sincerely, Riley
