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These little rascals would be a lot happier in some jeans and a t-shirt

Emily Burchett is a High School Junior from Judge Memorial Catholic High School in Salt Lake City, UT and has been an avid supporter of Invisible Children for a few years now. When the Mountain West Roadies visited her school this fall she was worried that her fellow students were getting tired of hearing about IC and wasn’t sure they’d be able to do much for Schools for Schools this round. Nevertheless, there was a dress-down day planned for later in the week, a fundraiser where students could bring in five dollars to wear jeans to school instead of their uniform. While Emily was announcing the rules of the fundraiser after the screening at Judge Memorial, her principal hopped on stage to make his own announcement. Obviously moved by the film, Emily’s principal started shouting “How about bring $6 and you can wear any shoes you want!? And how about $7 you can wear any shirt you want!?” The students all cheered, everyone seemed into it, but Emily still wasn’t sure how things would go Friday. Emily called her roadie contact that weekend blown away. Judge Memorial, a school with less that 1,000 students, raised $3,000 in one day for Gulu High School. There is still time to make a dress-down day happen at your school if you have uniforms.  Just collect the money in the morning and overnight it to the office.  Little ideas go a long way, and $1,000,000 for Schools for Schools goes a long way in the lives of students in Northern Uganda.