Ali Tejani is a student at Suffolk Community College. His speech professor is Ally McFadden’s, one of our 4th grade students, mother. Ali Tejani showed us a wonderful Power Point presentation highlighting the beauty of Tanzania and taught our students many interesting facts about his homeland.

To add to the excitement of Ali’s visit; we also were presented with a check for $1,000.00 from a family in our school to put towards our Well Fund! This family was made aware by their 1st and 3rd grade children of the plight of the children in MBULU and the need for clean drinking water. They were so moved that they made this generous donation. This brings St. James Elementary School’s total to $1,500.00 for the Well Project in December, 2007!

We are having our Game Show Nights, “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” on February 29th and March 7th,. We are confident that we will raise a substantial amount of money from these two fun-filled evenings.