Alpaca, Anyone?
We’ve all heard of children mowing lawns and raking leaves to earn enough money for a bike or a skateboard. But have you ever heard of children reading to earn alpacas? In Lehi, Utah, school children from Eaglecrest Elementary have been doing just that. They held a fundraiser and gathered sponsors to help them with a PTA-sponsored reading program with a humanitarian twist – when they have reached their school-wide reading goal of 5,000 hours, they will use the money to buy alpacas to donate to the Sunflower Orphanage in Peru, a charity funded by Richard Paul Evans. The alpacas … Continue reading