PLEASE JOIN students and families from the John F. Kennedy School in visiting the Porter Square Pizzeria Uno on Wednesday, December 16th to help students raise $5,000 to build a library at their Ethiopian Sister School, the Gordama School, and fill it with books. Students have already raised over $450 that was used to buy new desks and chairs for the Ethiopian K-8 school of over 1,800 students. The next fundraising event is on December 16th at Porter Square’s Pizzeria Uno. On this day, customers who present a donation ticket (online at http://www.somerville.k12.ma.us/kennedy) will have up to 20% of the price of their meal donated to the project.

As part of the Sister School activities, Kennedy School students are exchanging pictures and letters with students at the Gordama School, where the average class size is 100 students and students must share desks or sit on the classroom floor. Letters from students at Gordama describe how they go to school in the morning and then have to go home to do chores including fetching water and taking care of the animals. The 5th graders at the Kennedy have written letters and taken pictures that will be brought over to Ethiopia the second week of December.