IB students donated their unwanted clothing and other items to the sale and volunteered to run the actual event from 6:45 to 12:00 on Saturday. Signs and flyers were posted around the community and high school to raise awareness. Twenty-two out of the 47 students in IB helped run the garage sale.

                “We made $990.98 which is well over our goal for the year,” Junior Mitali Satheye said.

                Three Cups of Teas is an organization that funds schools for girls in Pakistan and is the IB program’s international project of the year.  The goal of the garage sale was to raise eight-hundred dollars that would pay one teacher’s salary in Pakistan.

                “I thought it was a substantial way to raise money for girls in other countries,” Junior Audrey Eichenberger said.  

                There will be one more fundraisers before the end of the year from the IB students to raise money for Three Cups of Tea.

Staff Writer

In continuing with their international project, IB students are organizing a garage sale for April 3 to raise more funds following their hot chocolate sale earlier in December.

The garage sale will be at the Sprouts parking lot from 7 to noon. As of now, the students are working to raise a minimum of $800 which would fund one student’s annual scholarship.

For next year’s international project, students are looking at LiNK, an organization that came to CHS and talked to IB students.

As part of the International Baccalaureate curriculum required in order to obtain a diploma, the IB students are required to complete a certain number of service hours, including one international project. This year’s IB students have chosen to participate in the “Three Cups of Tea” project and this week marked the beginnings of their efforts.

The “Three Cups of Tea” project is based off of the bestselling novel, The Cups of Tea by Greg Mortinson, the founder of the organization. It attempts to collect money in order to help promote education for girls in countries such as Pakistan and Afghanistan where it is otherwise ignored. Through his “Pennies for Peace” sector of the program, one small penny can provide a girl with school supplies; in other areas, it takes $600 to pay for the salary of a teacher for one year, and a good deal more to build an actual school.

The IB students have decided to take up the challenge of raising $600 through a series of fundraisers in order to pay for a teacher. Starting on Monday, January 11, hot chocolate sales have gone on in the morning before school for $1 in order to raise money. Since the international project is a mandatory one, several IB students have been in charge of manning the booth, which is temporarily set to run for two weeks.

Along with the hot chocolate fundraiser, other ideas are being thought up by the IB students in order to raise money. A series of these will most likely go on throughout the rest of the year and possibly expand into the next.

For more information regarding the Three Cups of Tea organization and how to help out, click here, or ask any IB student during hot chocolate sales.