'Lost Boys' receive help with Rebuilding HOPE

Why are there tables set up in the main entrance of Jamesville-Dewitt High School?

So students can purchase bracelets, t-shirts and key chains during lunch periods to raise money for the nonprofit organization Rebuilding HOPE for Ariang. The T-shirts are $12, bracelets are $1 and key chains are $2. Students can also buy a paper brick for $1, which represents a brick that goes into the school being built.
Rebuilding HOPE for Ariang is a nonprofit group that is providing educational opportunities and health services to Ariang according to an article on Syracuse.com. Gabriel Bol Deng is the leader of the group and is from Ariang, South Sudan.

On May 21 at 7 p.m. in the J-DHS auditorium a documentary will be shown about Deng and the Lost Boys. Sophomore Brianna Suslovic is one of the people that will be helping with the event that will be taking place. "The point of HOPE for Ariang is to build a school in Gabriel Bol Deng's hometown."
Junior Cameron Rinaldi is also one of the student leaders that will be helping with the event. " We will be showing a documentary and Gabriel Bol Deng will be attending the documentary screening. There is a picture of the school that Deng wants to build up in the front hall where everything will be sold."

The tickets to attend the documentary will cost $8 presale and $10 at the door. They are also planning on having a raffle at the event and tickets for the raffle will be sold during lunches.
"I think that it is a great thing that our school is helping because anytime that you help someone that isn't as fortunate as you is always a good thing to do," said senior Nicole Ortega.

Gabriel was one of the three Lost Boys when he was a child according to Syracuse.com. They fled their hometown in Ariang in 1987 because of a war that was going on according to Syracuse.com. They came to America to get an education so that they could go back to South Sudan to help rebuild it according to Syracuse.com.
From donations they have been able to receive - over $3 million according to Syracuse.com - the Lost Boys have already provided six new wells to the area, but young children still have to travel a long distance to get clean water for their families in rural areas. They have also built a Duk Lost Boys Clinic to treat the sick and 28,000 people have been served, according Syracuse.com. They are still rebuilding villages, wells, a school, and clinics according to Syracuse.com.

There will also be other ways to donate money by purchasing t-shirts and bracelets and participating in different walks. One of the walks that will take place is the Walk for Water and Wishes on June 20 at Green Lakes Park, according to Syracuse.com.