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Teacher Melinda Merten’s fourth-grade class at Oakwood School raised $1,398 to support children in Africa. As part of their history unit on African kingdoms, the fourth grade decided to run a three-week, school wide fundraising campaign. One of the fourth graders, Tsala Foley, has grandparents living in South Africa who are going to take the dollars raised and buy shoes, toys, school supplies, blankets and sports equipment to deliver to children in South Africa with the help of Emergency Children’s Help Organization (ECHO), a charity local to a region of South Africa that provides donations to many groups of people and children in need. The children who will benefit reside in the township of Khayelitsha, one of the poorest areas of Cape Town with a population of approximately 400,000.
