Sarah Fiske, 16, grew up hearing stories about her father’s longtime friend who runs an orphanage in the Haitian town of Ouanaminthe.
Last year, when she needed to come up with her required International Baccalaureate Personal Project, Fiske, a junior at Scheck Hillel Community School in North Miami Beach, Fla., knew she wanted to find a way to help the children at the orphanage.
Her project began with an email sent “to everyone I knew,” and some she didn’t, like the Miami Beach police chief, asking for donations of any new or used bicycles. In just a few months, the word “just spread” and Fiske collected more than 50 bicycles before arranging to have them shipped to Haiti. All the bikes would serve the same purpose, she said, of helping the children travel more easily the many miles to their school — especially as no other modes of transportation are available to them. Continue reading about Sarah's Project...
