TENINO, Wash. – Orphaned children in Ghana may have never heard of Justin Bieber, but his hit single “Baby, Baby, Baby” is helped to raise quite a bit of money to stock them with food and supplies.

But not the way you might expect.

Common Stakelin, student body president at Tenino High School in Washington State, devised a very crafty way to force his classmates to donate money to help 254 orphaned students at Crossover International Academy in Ghana:

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He played the Biebs’ “Baby, Baby, Baby” over the school intercom nonstop during lunch and between classes until students chipped in at least $500, King5 television station reports.

They say Bieber is popular with teens, but most of the students said the music was torture. And that was exactly how it was supposed to be taken.

“It helps kids that don’t have meals, they don’t even have a bed to lie on at night and in their school they don’t even have more than one piece of paper per day,” Stakelin told the news station.

The fundraiser is part of a district-wide effort initiated by Tenino Elementary School Principal Dave Ford to raise a total of $1,200 for the needy orphans. Stakelin’s unique approach to the fundraising brought in quite a bit of cash – $915 in about a day – and students couldn’t wait for it to be over, King5 reports.

“Oh my God my head is about to explode right now,” student Zack Chamberlain said during the fundraiser this week. “I’m pretty sure I’ve had five Ibuprofen already.”

Student Jasmine Moore agreed that nonstop “Baby, Baby, Baby” was getting to be too much to handle.

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“We’re done listening to that song over and over again. It’s getting really bad. I just want to go home,” she told King5.

The music finally stopped by first period Tuesday. Ford told King5 the Ghana fundraiser has brought the district’s community together for a good cause, even though students at the high school were forced to suffer for a short time.

“We kind of have this forest fire of passion, compassion and empathy. It’s flying through the district from 3rd to 12th grade,” he said. “They understand the connection between needs, wants and other people’s reality.”

They also understand what it’s like to be forced to listen to Justin Bieber, over and over again.

Some students probably spent two or three weeks’ worth of their allowance, just to make it stop.