August 11, 2005

Wheaton Teens Donate Thousands to Africa

A Christian high school in the Chicago suburbs has raised nearly $250,000 to combat AIDS in Africa over the past three years. Most of that money came from the pockets of the Wheaton Academy students, and it's helped build a medical clinic, a school, and feed children for a year in a village in Zambia.

I did a story on this school a few years ago, when they'd raised their first $80,000 or so. I loved the story, because one of the seniors involved had grown up in Zambia as a missionary kid. But the story has continued after that class graduated, and the school has continued to remember Zambia and give sacrificially.

That's just cool.

Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks at 07:00 AM | Comments (5)