| Show I Bobby And Bolivia BOBBY BROWN r Bobby Brown didn't make it home for His Sandy asked the other kids in the family where he was but ri no one seemed to Seven p.m. and no AT Sandy sent Tony and Chrisie out to see if they could find him At he i finally showed up When his distraught mother I asked Bobby where he had been all he could say was that he had been out earning money to help build a school in That didn't really make sense to his mother but he had to prove that he had been out i you get his mother earned an extra quarter and bought a with he WHAT BOBBY Brown was doing was what many of the students of Tolman School have been doing in the past week earning money to build a school in a typical school boy had lost a note that was sent home from school explaining a project that has been initiated by the student council and staff of Tolman THE AIM of the project is to help the people of some small remote community of Bolivia to get themselves a The people in the community provide the land for the clear the prepare a foundation and make the thousands of adobe bricks needed to put the walls But that is all they can IN A town where the average income of the family breadwinner is there just isn't any spare cash to buy the tin the window and door frames and the cement used to make the stucco to keep the adobe bricks from when it That's where the children and staff at Tolman School come Pledges of not to exceed are made by the But this is not just a hand-out from When the child pledges his money he also pledges to earn that money by doing chores around the house or in the IT TAKES about to buy the Bolivians the things they can't provide for And when the building is built the Bolivian Govern ment has agreed to send a teacher and some books so that the people can learn to read and write and be in a better position to help themselves out of the abject poverty in which they As for Bobby What is he doing this He's out working to earn money to help his second grade sister pay her She wants to help build a school in |
