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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Page 11 More on Page 12 NEWS AND IDEAS FROM CLASSROOMS AND EDUCATORS A.F. Junior High students donate pennies to fight malnutrition Thursday, Februaj 5, 2009 Barbara Christiansen NORTH COUNTY STAFF War has been declared next week at American Fork Junior Ju-nior High School. It's not a war of military might, or even of words. It's a war of pennies. Other money is included, too. It, however, is used as a defense mechanism, while pennies are the offensive. offen-sive. All next week there will be three clear plastic containers in the commons area at the school. They denote seventh, eighth and ninth grades. Students Stu-dents from those grades put as many pennies as they can in the box representing their own class. In rivaling classes, however, they can deposit other oth-er monetary denominations. Nickels, dimes, quarters and bills are all used to create negative neg-ative points for those grades. Pennies are positive points. The rivalry is expected to bring about lots of competition competi-tion and fun, along with generating gen-erating funds to help solve malnutrition in third world countries. It all began in a geography class. Teacher Derek Smith encouraged the students to come up with a geography project and a way to solve it. "We thought it was our responsibility to help out as much as we can," said Cassie Childs, one of the students who spearheaded the fundrais-ing fundrais-ing effort. "It started out as a geography geogra-phy project and we wanted to take it further," said Laura Hampton. Both students are Pennies are positive points. Other coins and currency are negative points. You want to get as many points in your own grade box. Cassie Childs PENNY WARZ ORGANIZER the ninth grade at AFJH. They told about learning about malnutrition mal-nutrition and how it impacted them. "Facing reality is different differ-ent than hearing about it in a story," Hampton said. "The story of malnutrition became a reality for us, our hearts were touched as we came to understand the hardships that third world countries face. With great opportunity comes great responsibility. We have an opportunity to help others and we have taken it. We realized real-ized that we are very blessed, and we should use some of what we have to help, others." Their slogan is "A little pocket change can change the world." They plan on donating that pocket change from junior ju-nior high students to UNICEF, which will purchase a special kind of food to send to those in need. "We were trying to find a way to solve malnutrition when we came across this food called RUTF," Hampton said. "It stands for Ready to Use Therapeutic Food. It is a peanut based paste containing peanut butter, sugar, powdered pow-dered milk, oil and vitamin and mineral protein powder." Despite the recent salmonella scare with peanut butter products, prod-ucts, there seem to be no problems prob-lems with this, the students reported. Hampton said the funds be used to feed hungry children. "It costs $ 1 a day or 50 cents for one package to feed a starving child," she said. "Plumpy-Nut the food product prod-uct requires no cooking or preparing, no water, and kids love it. They can't get enough of it." The two students have organized orga-nized the competition between the classes to get the whole school involved. "You donate into your own grade box," Childs said. "Pennies are positive points. Other coins and currency are negative points. You want to get as many points in your own grade box. One grade will come out with the most money and one may have the most points." They haven't determined the reward yet, but plan some kind of a food incentive for the class with the highest scores. The students invited the public to join them in participating par-ticipating in the humanitarian project. "If you would like to donate to this fundraiser, please come to the school and drop your donations in the containers that are in the commons area or contact Mr. Dalley, assistant assis-tant principal," Childs said. "We hope this project will inspire kids to think less of themselves, and more about being the change they wish to see in the world," Hampton said. "It's up to us to be the change." if ij If I fl "?" If ); m vx-- Laura Hampton and Cassie Childs, the organizers of this Penny Warz at American Fork Junior High School Courtesy year's ' "f- LA Smooth Sailing in troubled times is easier at Family First. "7 jyU Call the Home & Business Loan Center at 801-225-6080 . '? 3 J i I Sewing, Quilting & J Embroidery Headquarters J American Fork 53 W. Main 756-2223 Riverton 1849 W. 12600 S. 446-7958 Murray. Ce nrerville. 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