SJHS News

Jeremy Schanderl
SJHS Staff Writer

Springville Junior High has been helping out kids living in Guatelmala by buying and selling “Yuda Bands.” Yuda means to help, and each band is sold for $7. When students purchase Yuda bands, it helps raise money for a child who needs an education in Guatemala.  One hundred and fifty Yuda bands can pay for one child’s schooling.

Each Yuda band is hand made by the kids who need schooling. They carve different designs into them plus each yuda band has a tag to go to a website to see the child that you are helping by buying a Yuda band. Each school usually sponsors 3-5 children. The selling of the Yuda bands is being organized by the service learning class during both lunches. Mrs. Crandall, the service learning teacher, said, “The best part of it all is that we sold enough to send three students to school next year.”