A Reno, NV. local is challenging 70+ college students to raise funds to bring water filters to children and families in Nyeri, Kenya. 100% of all proceeds raised go to provide LifeStraws to rural villages. Each LifeStraw™ filters out 1,000+ liters of contaminated drinking water.
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University of Nevada students take on the LifeStraw™ project as their service learning challenge for Spring 2012.
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Nevada is one of the leading states in the country with the highest rates of suicide. Reed High School has the highest suicide rates and is the high school most at risk for suicide in Washoe County. In 2011 alone, 3 suicide victims were students at Reed. For this reason we decided to target this [...]
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This will be our final post of the semester. Our class has completed our service learning project (except for those who are going to Kenya) and it has been a very fulfilling semester. We have recently gotten word from our teacher that our project has inspired the university to adopt a sister school in Kenya. [...]
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We have lived and leaned through this amazing experience. To have the ability to make a difference in a child’s life which you have never met or spoken to is such a gratifying feeling. Sometimes we forget about the little things that count in life when you’re surrounded by so many materialistic things. I would [...]
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We spent another full day following our first, at Reed High School in four more health classes. This day was very rewarding as well as much easier because we had our presentation down like the back of our hands! It was great to see the student’s enthusiasm, as well as the teacher’s enthusiasm for what [...]
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We started our day out early in an 8:00 a.m. health class at Reed High School. All three of us were quite excited to get going on our presentation! The first presentation went very well and the kids were quite excited to win candy that we passed out for our jeopardy game after our presentation! [...]
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Giardia. A simple word that you’ve probably never heard of. But to kids in Africa, this is the main cause of the diarrheal disease that is killing children all across Africa. Kids everyday are subjected to this protozoan parasite in the water that they drink because they lack the proper resources/money to have access to [...]
Read More Dirty water, Giardia, lifestraw, Team Cambodia, unr
As our class comes to an end my group members and I would like to thank everyone who supported our great class project. I can honestly say this class has done more for the community than any other course I have taken at UNR. Thanks to The Human Bean, The Waterfall, and NV Energy, and [...]
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Clean water is not found everywhere around the world. Most of the low income countries have no choice but to drink contaminated water that causes diarrhea and death. Please watch this YouTube video to learn more and learn one way we can solve this problem. Clean water should be a human right, and by donating [...]
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