After weeks of preparation, Hillview Middle School's CJSF (Californai Junior Scholarship Federation) students put together an amazing educational program for younger students. Their teacher, Mary Taylor, explains, "The seventh and eighth grade students planned lessons, wrote skits, choreographed dances and prepared crafts. This project was designed to help educate elementary students about hunger, poverty, lack of education and deforestation". The young children did chores such as gathering and hauling water, went to 'school' without their shoes on, and performed a skit on deforestation. These children learned valuable lessons about what it is like to be a child in a developing nation. One of the final sessions asked the students to imagine their perfect world, and they created a mural of poems and drawings depicting this world. On November 20th, the students had a Night of Performing Arts where they put on part of Heifer's Llama Drama and raised over 3000 dollars for Heifer! We are so proud of these students and so thankful to Mary Taylor (a recent participant in the Heifer Study Tour for Educators to Honduras) for all her hard work. Congratulations!
