For the past week, NHS has been promoting and selling bracelets called Yuda bands. The service project was decided by Julia Bucheit, president of NHS, as she remembers when NHS sponsored another student before. Each band was sold for $10, at football games and lunches, and if a student chose to, they could have their picture taken. The money collected all goes toward a 14-year-old girl named Moreblessing who lives in Zimbabwe! The NHS members chose to sponsor Moreblessing initially due to her picture, where she is holding up two peace signs. Once the members heard her story, they wanted to help her. 

     Moreblessing is the oldest child of her family and a sibling to one brother and two sisters. Her family struggles to pay for rent, food, clothes, and school. Moreblessing likes the color red and wants to become a nurse in the future. In Zimbabwe where she lives, only seven years of free education are given, not enough to become a nurse. 

     To help fund her education, Hamburg’s NHS reached out to Yuda bands and started selling. Yudabands.org describes their bracelets as “leather and coconut shell bracelets, handmade in Guatemala.”

     Mrs. Bucheit, the advisor of NHS, said, “I really like this service project because it is about youth empowering youth – students here at Hamburg Area High School helping a girl in Zimbabwe get a high school education so that she can achieve her dream of becoming a nurse.  The youth of our country are fortunate enough to have access to 13 years of free public education which is not the case in Zimbabwe where only the first seven years are free.  Anything beyond that, families have to pay for themselves. The money raised through the sale of Yuda Bands helps to pay for school fees for the youth in developing countries.”

     “Maybe we can’t change the whole world but we can change Moreblessing’s!”