In just over a month students from Cavendish, Junior and Senior Departments at Saltus Grammar School have managed to raise $21,764.76 for tsunami survivors in South East Asia.

Of this amount, individual students raised over $1,000 on their own with everything from lemonade stands to selling pet treats.

Headmaster Nigel Kermode said the students? fundraising efforts had been absolutely stunning and he was overwhelmed.

He went on to thank all the parents for their encouragement and assistance.

?The students, both as groups and as individuals, have done a great job raising funds to provide aid to the victims of this horrific disaster,? he said.

Students in the Saltus Senior Department raised an astonishing $12,175.19 during a Grub Week.

Senior students happily made a donation of $5 per day for each day that week that they came to school in casual clothes instead of their uniforms.

Students in the Saltus Junior Department raised over $6,300 through four Grub Days plus class and individual efforts.

Class activities included J4 ?Drop in the Ocean? spare change collection, J5 Popsicle sales, J6 chip sales and the J7 lunchtime cartoon shows and several students also used their initiative in raising funds.

J5s Alexandra Marshall and Latonia Fray baked cookies and sold them along with lemonade; J5 Nicholas Bergquist washed cars and did other chores; J4 Adam Baillie sold joke sheets; J5s Margaret King and Leandra Stracquadanio made pet treats and sold them; and J5s Ben and Amy Green along with Mitchell Campbell also raised funds.

Proceeds from the recent ?Ocean Spray? Race were also donated to this cause.

Saltus Cavendish students collected over $3,200 mostly in spare change and students sorted, counted and graphed some of those monies to hone their math skills.

Many other students also played a role in raising funds.

P1 Adam Hall spent a Saturday selling home-made cookies and bananas, P1 Zoe Lopes set up a lemonade stand, P2 Marcus Pimentel gave money from his ?Good Decision? box, and P3 Ailey McLeod held a Bake Sale with goods baked with her mother.

To give one an idea of what the donations for tsunami relief could be used for,SGY student Rehan Syed, who is from India, calculated what $12,100 in US dollars would buy in India.

Students in the Senior Department raised just over $12,100 which would buy three meals for 20,812 people for a day, rent for 174 houses, which would house families of four for an entire year, or 12 bore wells which would provide clean water for thousands forever.

And to provide perspective for the youngest students, if every child at Cavendish brought in a penny a day for a week, that $12.50 would be enough to purchase an emergency health kit containing medical supplies and medicine to cover the basic health needs of two people for three months.

All figures for Rehan Syed?s project were based on information he obtained from the United Nations Children?s Fund (UNICEF).