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Every holiday season, I'm besieged with emails and tidbits about area schools who are donating to worthy organizations.
I try to give some credit to everybody, sprinkling stories throughout the season. But it's impossible to cover them all.
So I need to give credit to the Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton sixth-graders. They are collecting pennies to support the building of schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan, an idea that germinated after the class read "Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson (in itself a remarkable story of a mountain climber-turned humanitarian). They have collection jars at all three district schools and several around the community as well.
But (in a somewhat dubious distinction) they were the first to notify me. Surely there will be many to follow, but kudos to JWP for getting a head start.