April 25, 2017: Two speakers joined us for our April 25 meeting at Riley Park, Scotty Parker for Scotty’s Ride for WMI and Kelsey Kool from Trunk Club of Charleston. Inspired by images of children who did not have clean drinking water, at age 7 Scotty decided to do something about it. For his 8th birthday he asked for donations instead of gifts and raised $618. After that he decided to think bigger and trained to ride across South Carolina to raise money for Water Missions International. He was age 10 when he made the trip and was inspired by the communities, kids and adults who came out and donated ultimately raising $70,000. That money was enough to complete two sanitary systems in Honduras. He was then able to visit to see the impact of the donation and how it changed the lives of children there. Water Missions installed sinks in every classroom of a school there but the children were afraid to drink the water. Water Missions had Scotty drink from every faucet to show the kids it was ok. He was amazed by the response of the kids to getting clean water, for us it is taken for granted, for them it was life or death. Continue reading “Scotty Parker: Scotty’s Ride for WMI/Kelsey Kool: Trunk Club”
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