Local fifth-grader’s compassion transforms lives half a world away

GREEN BAY – Addie Beauchamp, a student at Notre Dame of De Pere, recently completed an inspiring project that brought hope across the world: creating a borehole in Chikanza — a rural community in Zambia — providing clean water to those who didn’t have it before.

It all started when Beauchamp was assigned the book A Long Walk to Water by her fifth-grade teacher Cindy Kabat.

Inspired by the book and her grandparents’ experience volunteering at a school in Chikanza, where students had no access to clean water, Beauchamp wondered how she could help that community halfway across the world…

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