Skyping Georgie Badiel

At the book fair, The Dobbins Family purchased the Water Princess by Susan Verde and Illustrated by Peter Reynolds for our classroom. We read the story together and had a lot of meaningful conversations about Georgie's story.  It's about a girl named Georgie Badiel living in Burkina Faso who has to walk 4 miles each day to get water for her family. The water the family works so hard to get is dirty and often makes people sick. Gie Gie, the character in the story has since grown up to be a model and activist for clean water in Africa.

Today, we had the opportunity to come together with the whole first grade to speak with Gie Gie, Georgie Badiel, through a Skype call in Miss Rowley's classroom. She is now an adult who is a model in the United States and has set up the Foundation. The call inspired the children to help raise money to help her foundation to build a well for clean water. Georgie said the biggest way we can help the people in her village is providing clean waters for the children in their schools. Here is the link http://georgiebadielfoundation.org for you to explore, if you are interested. The students saw a great video under the "Get Involved" tab on the website. 

The Whole first grade together ready to skype Georgie

 Skype with Georgie- What an amazing experience for the kids to meet her and learn about her story