Number of Participants: 22
Hours Donated: 25
Value of Time Served: $4,648
Event Amount Raised: $500
Event Type: Civic & Community
Sport: Schools
Date: February 4, 2020
Location:
Northport
NY 11768, USA
About:
Fifth grade students in Dickinson Avenue Elementary School’s leadership book club have regularly given up their recess to count envelopes of change for Stony Brook Children’s Hospital’s Change for Children campaign.
Over the course of two weeks, the “DAS Ambassadors of Leadership” visited classrooms to ask students, teachers and staff for monetary donations for the hospital’s child life services program, which looks to make children’s stay in the hospital more comfortable. The students collected nearly $500, which will help the hospital provide children with toys, arts and crafts, books and other fun activities, like visits from therapy dogs and clowns.
In past months, the club’s 22 ambassadors collected Halloween costumes for Helping Hand Rescue Mission in Huntington Station and coats for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Long Island.
Photo captions:
- MAIN: Students in Dickinson Avenue Elementary School’s leadership book club counted the remaining change for Stony Brook Children’s Hospitals Change for Children campaign on Jan. 31.
- DSC_0057: Pictured left to right, Leo Asadourian, Liam Healy, Claudia Buzzell, Samantha Canales-Pinto, Jack Hopkins, Sophie Novello.
Photos courtesy of Northport-East Northport Union Free School District