Wednesday, June 19, 2002
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Wednesday, June 19, 2002 |
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After-school program gives back to community
Community service projects are among the many activities that students in the Fayette County School System's After-School Program participate in throughout the year. Recently, students in the program at Robert J. Burch Elementary made special calendars and gift bags for the children in the intensive care unit at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. The idea for the project came from a student who was in the hospital's ICU last year. While there, she received a package from another school and thought it would be a great idea for one of Burch's community service projects. Expanding on the idea, ASP students began designing pictures and attaching their artwork onto calendars to include with gift bags to present to children at the hospital. The students also collected donations of toothpaste, tooth brushes, soaps, coloring books, crayons and other items families might not think to take with them in a crisis. The students formed an assembly line to fill 30 gift bags with their calendar pictures and donations. ASP representatives Jamie Faver, Linsey Hearn and Morgan Clason took the gift bags to the hospital's third floor ICU along with site coordinator Ginger Clason. Clason said that Children's Healthcare of Atlanta was very grateful and thanked the students, their parents and Burch's ASP for the contribution.
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