[FONT="]That's right- a JELL-O FIGHT!! The world's largest Jell-O fight ever, and all proceeds go towards the Invisible Children in Uganda.
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[FONT="]Saturday, December 4th, 3pm[/FONT]
[FONT="]South Walton High School stadium[/FONT]
[FONT="]$7 for about 1/2 gallon of Jell-O, or pay $4 to bring your own Jell-O arsenal[/FONT]
[FONT="]Live Music by The Trees[/FONT]
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[FONT="]What a fun way to raise money- bring your camera and watch even if you don't want to throw Jell-O![/FONT]
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[FONT="]Some info on the Invisible Children, from Jewell Carroll, one of the SWHS student coordinators--
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Invisible Children - About Us
IC was founded in 2003 when three average college students from California film school took a trip to Africa and documented their time. While they were there, they got stranded in a town called Gulu in Northern Uganda because of a shooting.
After asking around and doing some research, they discovered that the group behind the shooting was the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). The LRA has been terrorizing central Africa since 1986 under the power of a man named Joseph Kony. This 24-year-long war fought by the LRA as well as other rebel army groups is known to be Africa's longest running war.
Because of the atrocities that the LRA has been performing -such as mutilations, massacres, and mass kidnappings for no reason -the rebel group lost the people's support incredibly quickly. In his drive for power and desire for continuous bloodshed, Joseph Kony turned to abducting children from his own villages to serve as soldiers, sex slaves, and slaughter dummies in his army. The abducted children are forced to kill or be killed.
So, IC's main focus is ending the war and bringing home the child soldiers.
However, in 2007, the Ugandan Country Director of IC informed the charity that the people of central Africa longed for additional help in a subject they believed to be greatly important. They asked if IC would aid them in the rebuilding of the destroyed and displaced schools.
And so in that year -2007 -IC formed a new chapter called SCHOOLS for SCHOOLS (S4S) that would do just that. They made it so that schools in the US would be paired up with schools in Uganda for which they would raise as much money as they can in a 100 day time period.
There is a round each year (this year it runs through December 17) and at the end of each competition, the schools that show the most dedication are awarded a mission trip to Northern Uganda to see first hand where the money they worked so hard to raise has gone. While there, they help construct the schools as well as spend time face-to-face with the children whose lives their fund raising has impacted.
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[FONT="]Saturday, December 4th, 3pm[/FONT]
[FONT="]South Walton High School stadium[/FONT]
[FONT="]$7 for about 1/2 gallon of Jell-O, or pay $4 to bring your own Jell-O arsenal[/FONT]
[FONT="]Live Music by The Trees[/FONT]
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[FONT="]What a fun way to raise money- bring your camera and watch even if you don't want to throw Jell-O![/FONT]
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[FONT="]Some info on the Invisible Children, from Jewell Carroll, one of the SWHS student coordinators--
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Invisible Children - About Us
IC was founded in 2003 when three average college students from California film school took a trip to Africa and documented their time. While they were there, they got stranded in a town called Gulu in Northern Uganda because of a shooting.
After asking around and doing some research, they discovered that the group behind the shooting was the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). The LRA has been terrorizing central Africa since 1986 under the power of a man named Joseph Kony. This 24-year-long war fought by the LRA as well as other rebel army groups is known to be Africa's longest running war.
Because of the atrocities that the LRA has been performing -such as mutilations, massacres, and mass kidnappings for no reason -the rebel group lost the people's support incredibly quickly. In his drive for power and desire for continuous bloodshed, Joseph Kony turned to abducting children from his own villages to serve as soldiers, sex slaves, and slaughter dummies in his army. The abducted children are forced to kill or be killed.
So, IC's main focus is ending the war and bringing home the child soldiers.
However, in 2007, the Ugandan Country Director of IC informed the charity that the people of central Africa longed for additional help in a subject they believed to be greatly important. They asked if IC would aid them in the rebuilding of the destroyed and displaced schools.
And so in that year -2007 -IC formed a new chapter called SCHOOLS for SCHOOLS (S4S) that would do just that. They made it so that schools in the US would be paired up with schools in Uganda for which they would raise as much money as they can in a 100 day time period.
There is a round each year (this year it runs through December 17) and at the end of each competition, the schools that show the most dedication are awarded a mission trip to Northern Uganda to see first hand where the money they worked so hard to raise has gone. While there, they help construct the schools as well as spend time face-to-face with the children whose lives their fund raising has impacted.
