Recycled cans and bottles in the classroom will be donated to buy a goat for a family in need. For more information, see heifer.org.
On the last day of school, I filled my van with all of the cans and plastic water bottles we collected since January and took it over to Danny's Recycling in Santa Clara. We got $31 for the water bottles and $9 for the cans. That adds up to $40. We are now a third of the way toward buying a goat. Goats cost $120.
Here's a list of animals and how much they would cost:
http://www.heifer.org/site/c.edJRKQNiFiG/b.204586/
Forty dollars down, eighty more to go, before we give some needy a family in some far off country the welcome gift of a cute little, milk-producing goat.
If you can, save cans and bottles during the summer and bring them to the classroom on the first day of school in August. Let's get that goat!
And then what? Maybe a cow? ? ?
Well, we'll cross that pasture when we come to it.
Save your cans! Save your bottles! Let's make a difference!