NJHS Visits the New York Founding
For the 2009-2010 academic year, Evangel’s National Junior Honor Society (NJHS) decided to raise money for the NY Founding as their service project. Our NJHS treasurer, Keoana Arnett (an eighth grader), is adopted and her mother spoke with the NJHS advisor of the various organization she knew about.
As stated on their website, “Founded in 1869 as a home for abandoned children, The New York Foundling has continuously and conscientiously expanded its scope of programs to meet the changing needs of the communities we serve. The Foundling’s diverse network of programs works interactively to provide care for families with multiple social, economic, medical, and psychological needs. We protect children from abuse and neglect; we help teen mothers and other overstressed parents to meet the challenges of parenthood; we help developmentally disabled people achieve maximum independence; we provide educationally-enriched child care and preschool; and we meet a variety of community needs in neighborhoods struggling with poverty, drugs, and violence.”
Through bake sales held throughout the year, in which students baked or brought in yummy treats themselves, NJHS raised $300.00 which we presented to Mr. Alan Schatz, a program director at the New York Foundling, on May 27, 2010. Mr. Schatz provided a tour of the Crisis Nursery to our NJHS students. The Crisis Nursery is a facility that accepts children at any hour or any day if the parent is unable to care for them at that time. Mr. Schatz was so grateful and sent a beautiful letter of appreciation to our students in recognition of their endeavors. Pictures of our day can be see in our school’s website gallery.
NJHS looks forward to the 2010-2011 year in which we can raise both awareness and money for another great cause.
Please see “Galleries” for some cool pics!
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