The students at Mahanoy Area are going to put together a care package for our students who are in the foster care program. We plan on filling a personalized duffle bag with items these children many need. We are going to fund some of the project by selling hearts to our students and faculty in grades k-12. We will have a simple heart to have a name put on and posted on a wall for a dollar and a more decorative one for $5.
I will send you more information as we get things going. We will be selling the hearts during the month of February. We are still deciding what items to put in the duffle bags. They probably will differ depending on the age of the students. We decided to focus on these students because Gerda missed her family so much and we know these children miss that family connection as well. We also had a speaker at a previous conference who was lured in by white supremacists when he was a young man. He was raised in foster care and said he grew up wanting to belong to something and this group sucked him right in with a sense of family. He later left the group when he had a child born with a cleft palate and the group felt the child should be euthanised.
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