The Global Empowerment and Outreach student club kicked off its fall GEO week on Oct. 16 with a visit to the upper school by charity: water’s Lane Wood, who spoke to a special Friday assembly about the crisis being faced by more than one billion people worldwide who do not have access to clean drinking water. The charity: water organization, whose founder, Scott Harrison, visited Harker’s middle and upper school campuses last year, raises money to build wells where fresh water is sorely needed. So far the organization has completed more than 1,200 water projects that have helped approximately 650,000 people worldwide.

Clean drinking water is the theme of the fall GEO week, and includes various events and fundraisers, including a relay race and a program in which students sponsor teachers and staff who have pledged to give up their favorite drinks for the week.