Jake Lee, who led his group to wash cars at the Shell station along Middle Road in Gualo Rai, said they washed a dozen cars. They started at 9 a.m. and were done by 1:30 p.m.
He said they had fun doing the job adding that they could have earned more if they brought a vacuum cleaner for which they could charge an extra fee of $3.
The other group led by Miguel Dandan at the Susupe Shell station had a vacuum cleaner and found using it the hardest part of the job.
But the students, who are in sixth, seventh and eighth grades, said they wash cars at home so the job was not really new to them.
They said it was really fun to make money to help others who are in distress.
“We’re doing good. We washed 10 cars and we’re having fun,” Dandan said.
The independent movie about a hotelier who saved the lives of over 1,000 people in Rwanda has inspired the students of Whispering Palms School to help the foundation in the African country.
The students under teacher Rebekah Yost decided to wash cars so they could raise funds for the foundation of Paul Rusesabagina, the manager of Hotel des Mille Collines in Rwanda, who saved 1,268 lives during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
Yost’s students watched the movie “Hotel Rwanda” as part of their world history class.
This inspired the students to help Rusesabagina foundation.
In their letters to Rusesabagina, the children thanked him for being brave and making a difference that saved the lives of the Tutsi people and their children.
