St. Andrew's Students Help Build Schools in Nicaragua

Austin, TX - Alex Kriese is a 14-year-old student at St. Andrew's Episcopal who is leading a book drive from January 24 through January 28 to help build a school in rural Nicaragua. He will also travel to the country to see the school built during his spring break in March.

He says he got the idea after hearing Project Schoolhouse's executive director speak about how schools in rural Nicaragua were filled with mud and each student there only has one pen.

Alex spoke with his school advisor Joshua Nelson and, with approval, he and some friends decided to lead a donation drive to raise books and awareness of helping children globally.

Alex and students at St. Andrew's hope to gather 5,000 books during the week and they'd like community members help them reach that goal.

Books can be dropped off at St. Andrew's Episcopal school throughout the week. Students will be available starting at 7 am each day to help unload books. The books will be processed for resale or recycle. The funds generated will go to Project Schoolhouse, a nonprofit organization that helps build schools in rural countries.

Over Spring Break, Alex, his family, advisor and a friend will travel to Ncaragua to see where the school will be built.

Alex, Brian Wongchotigul and Zachary Dell stopped by Good Day to talk about the project.