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Fountain of bliss for lucky prize-winning school

Tokirima School has won a brand-new water fountain valued $598 thanks to Filters and Fountains!

The tiny, water-only school has just 17 Year 1-8 students and wouldn’t be able to fundraise enough to install a fully functional fountain. Relying on tank water, students said they struggle during dry months. 

Principal Cindy Woolston and Senior Classroom Teacher Eike Schormair sent in their application to Filters and Fountains, who had promised to give one lucky school a fully filtered FF4X Wall Mounted Drinking Fountain. 

Tokirima School can finally replace its existing fountain, which the students told us was 21 years’ old and pretty leaky! 

Congratulations Tokirima!

Rosie Clarke

Rosie is the managing editor here at Multimedia Pty Ltd, working across School News New Zealand and School News Australia. She has spent 10+ years in B2B journalism, and has spent some time over the last couple of years teaching as a sessional academic. Feel free to contact her at any time with editorial or magazine content enquiries.

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