Number of Participants: 100
Hours Donated: 1
Value of Time Served: $845
Event Type: Children & Youth
Sport: Schools
Date: December 4, 2020
Location:
Meadow Drive School
Meadow Drive, Albertson
NY
About:
Students at Meadow Drive School in the Mineola Union Free School District are helping those in need this holiday season. The school is taking part in New York State Assemblyman Edward Ra’s Holiday Toy Drive. Students and staff are gathering toys to benefit the NYU Langone Child Life Program as well as the John Theissen Children’s Foundation. The goal of the toy drive is to brighten the holidays for Long Island children.
Not only is the school collecting toys, it also took part in a pajama drive earlier this month. The school collected new, unworn pajamas from community members to donate to Ronald McDonald House Charities in New Hyde Park. Meadow Drive students and staff celebrated their contributions by wearing their own pajamas to school on Friday, Dec. 4.
In November, Meadow Drive hosted a staff Skee-Ball tournament in the school gym. In order to play, staff members had to bring in canned goods to be donated to St. Aidan’s food pantry. The school was able to donate several boxes of food.
The district is #MineolaProud of its students and staff for their contributions to the community during this season.
Photo caption 1: Meadow Drive students stand in front of toy donations that were collected as part of NYS Assemblyman Edward Ra’s annual drive.
Photo caption 2: Meadow Drive students in Mineola collected boxes of unworn pajamas to donate to Ronald McDonald House Charities in New Hyde Park.
Photo caption 3: Faculty and staff at Meadow Drive School donated canned goods to St. Aidan’s food pantry through participating in a Skee-Ball tournament.
Photos courtesy of the Mineola Union Free School District
