Brick by Brick

The Lincoln Journal, in Massachusetts, published a great article about how a group of local students is raising money to help us build schools in Africa.

Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School Africa Club members, from left, (back) Nate Bennett, Ben Yamron, Aidan Doyle, Rachel Cook (adviser), Melissa Shen (adviser), (middle) Gabby Massey, Molly Clements, Alice Clements, Sydney Wry, Larsen Henken, Lauren Mandt, Jess Puopolo, Sarah Reilly, Ceci Barnes, (front) Leanne Fitzpatrick, Anna Mae Frey, Annie Levoy, Gracie Keilen, Kenzie Madden and McShane Sneath.  COURTESY PHOTO

Since its start in 2011, Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School’s Schools for Africa Club has been fundraising to build a school in Mali, West Africa — a country with one of the lowest literacy rates on the continent.

The student-run group is trying to raise $25,000 to erect a school to accommodate more than 100 students through the nonprofit organization Build a School in Africa, which has raised funds and built a new school every year in Mali since 2005.

Read the full story here.