Voluntown Schools

On Thursday i went to Voluntown to speak to all the grades about Chikumbuso. At their school they are making cousin bowls out of clay, in their art classes and auctioning off one of them at a silent auction. All the money is going to Chikumbuso, and the night of they are going to make nishma to put everyones bowl, so everyone can taste it, and the students are going to play African music, and dance to it. It sounds like it will be a fun night. I think it is happening in April? I'm not really sure. At the school, i talked to all the classes ranging from first graders, all the way to eighth graders. I told them about the project, and what our school does for fundraisers. It was really cool because i asked some of the student what they thought they could do in their school to fund raise for Chikumbuso and their ideas were so funny. A little girl was like, we can buy plastic spoons and write Chikumbuso on it and send it to them. Another kid said we could buy hats and write messages on them to our friends and sell them, and give all the money to Chikumbuso. They had the craziest ideas, it was so funny, but i think they are going to do good things with this project. the kids seemed really interested.