Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF

By Mercy, 8th Grade student

This Halloween, all students will be encouraged to "trick-or-treat for UNICEF." UNICEF is an organization designed to help children in need. The big-little sister groups decorate little orange boxes, and then they can take them and ask for donations while they are trick-or-treating. Last year, we raised nearly six hundred dollars. It'd be great if we could raise even more money this year.

It's surprising how little money is needed to do good with UNICEF. Just six cents can get clean water for a child. Two dollars and twenty cents will send a child to school. That means that with last year's donations, we saved almost 10,000 kids from thirst, or we might have sent about 280 kids to school.

The eighth grade made a presentation at an October community meeting. They told us about the ways donations can help. Then, the eighth graders performed a skit to demonstrate some good ways to ask for donations, and to show the trick-or-treat for UNICEF process.