Number of Participants: 11
Hours Donated: 4
Value of Time Served: $372
Event Type: Advocacy & Human Rights
Sport: Aquatics
Date: December 18, 2017
Location:
Massapequa
NY, United States
About:
The hands of more than two dozen students at Massapequa High School’s Ames Campus were busy sorting pajama and book donations after school on Dec. 18 for the community service organization’s annual holiday drive.
The Helping Hands club was preparing the items for delivery two days later to the Central Islip Head Start preschool program. Members encouraged their classmates to donate new children’s pajamas and storybooks. The club collected 161 pairs of pajamas, more than enough to help the 140 students at the school.
The ninth-graders visited Head Start to hand out the pajamas and read with the youngsters. Club advisers Alyssa Levine and Karen Matros said that it is important for Ames students to interact with the preschool children and see the impact that their donations have.
Students Isabella Fontana and Carli Sanger said it is important to help out others who may not have as much, especially during the season of giving. They were excited to see the joy on the faces of the children who would receive the gifts.
The pajama and book drive is the biggest initiative of the year for Helping Hands, which also raised $300 at a recent bake sale for future service activities.
Photo caption: Helping Hands advisers Karen Matros, left, and Alyssa Levine, second from right, were joined by Principal Jordan McCaw and ninth-graders as they sorted pajama donations.
Photo courtesy of Massapequa School District