Three Kutztown girls want to save bats.

The three Kutztown Elementary School students recently completed a project--making and selling origami bats to raise money to help scientists find a cure for White-nose Syndrome, a fungal disease that is killing off millions of bats in the United States, mostly in the northeast.

“The girls came up with the idea themselves and did a lot of work to raise the money,” said Lisa Schnell, mom of two of the girls. “I’m really proud of the initiative that the girls took with this. This was totally their idea, their plan and they spent a lot of time going door-to-door walking around and actually selling these bats. This was something new for all of them and they did a really great job.”