The goal – for every student, teacher, staff member and administrator to help package meals for Haiti.
USD 490 hosted a Numana packaging event Wednesday at El Dorado High School. All day, they bussed in students from the elementary and middle schools to help with the packaging.
"I feel so great because we are helping other people who are needy in Haiti," said Lincoln fourth grader Jayne Cavender. "It's so fun to help people."
She said they wanted to get as many meals packaged as they could.
Fellow fourth grader Christie Bozarth agreed helping made her feel good.
"I feel good because I know how hard it is for Haiti because of the earthquake," said Lincoln fourth grader Caitlin Thomas. "I haven't ever done this before so I feel really, really great."
In addition to helping with the packaging, high school students visited all of the elementary classes, as well as the middle school, to teach them about Haiti.
At a class at Washington Elementary, the high schoolers taught the students about Toussain L'Ouverture, whom they described as Haiti's George Washington.
Then they had the elementary students fill in a diagram that listed at things different and the same about themselves and L'Ouverture.
At Skelly Elementary, students in Autumn Hardey's first grade class learned facts about Haiti.
EHS students Kourtney Maison, Lexy Smith and Savannah Gannon talked to them about language, customs and other topics.
"In Haiti, people speak a language called Creole," Maison explained.
She went on to teach them the colors in French and had them color some pictures after giving them instructions in French on what color to use.
They also learned there are a lot of bananas in Haiti, which is one of their main exports. Fishing also is common for their own food as well as commercial fishing.
Students learned about the black crocodiles in Haiti and that they can grow up to 20 feet in length. The high school students also told them monkeys are plentiful in Haiti.
Other information included the types of formal wear they have.
In all, the students and staff packaged 156,384 meals to be sent to Haiti.
