The Wayne Valley Girls Ski Racing team recently took home another State Championship by winning the BIG 3 events in 2018. This includes the Slalom, Giant Slalom, and Overall competition. As a result, the Girls Ski team is the #1 ranked team in NJ.

On April 11th, the Randall Carter Student Council held a Skype session with their new friends at Nansana School in Uganda. Many of Nansana’s students are orphans, attend class with approximately 35 students of all ages, wear bright orange and white uniforms, and have very basic classrooms. Their desks are long wooden tables that desperately need replacing, and they have little in the way of technology or the many other comforts we enjoy daily. However, during the roughly 40 minute conversation, all of the students were laughing together and having great conversations. Both sets of students share a love of science, baseball and reading. They laughed and joked together as they discovered the unforeseen common ground between them. The sheer joy of Nansana’s students had a profound effect on the Randall Carter students.

This Skype session was made possible because of Randall Carter's Student Council’s work with Heart for People, an amazing non-profit organization that works with schools in Uganda to support their efforts to educate children. Heart for People matched Randall Carter with Nansana School, an elementary school in Uganda run by a man named Segawa. Nansana has approximately 300 students and also serves as a home for orphans, some of whom are refugees from nearby Sudan. The Skype was Randall Carter Elementary School's first effort to educate their students about Ugandan culture, poverty and education around the world, as well as to meet the students they are helping through their fundraiser, “Read to Roof”.

“Read to Roof” runs throughout the month of April, and 100% of the proceeds will go directly to Nansana School. The Randall Carter Student Council has challenged their student body to get sponsors to pledge money for the number of books read in April. Their goal reflects the unique needs of Uganda students at this time which are desks! They aim to raise enough money to purchase 40 desks for Nansana School. The students are so excited to share this amazing opportunity with the Wayne community, and they are proud of their philanthropic spirit.

*If you would like to support Randall Carter’s efforts, please visit www.heartforpeople.org and make a donation through PayPal, noting “on behalf of Randall Carter” in the memo.