Helping Haiti

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Cozy Collection: A Cross-Disciplinary Civic Action Project

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Students Collect More Than 6,000 Items to Help Haiti  

The Deer Park School District and community came together to help the people of Haiti in the aftermath of their devastating earthquake. High school freshman Thomas Goemans spearheaded the mission and rallied his peers together to collect valuable medical and essential toiletry supplies to be distributed to injured and displaced victims.

Donation stations were set up in every district school, and as a result more than 6,000 items were collected. Students sorted and boxed the diverse group of items, which ranged from crutches, gauze pads and diapers to soap, toothpaste and combs. The Suffolk County Legislature also aided in the cause by donating the shipping for all of the care packages to reach Haiti.

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Students Organize a Cozy Collection for Haiti’s Children

In an effort to bring comfort to the children affected by the earthquake, students at May Moore Elementary School donated more than 2,000 stuffed animals for the displaced children of Haiti. All of which the students loaded onto a large bus, beginning the journey to their final destination.

To help increase the number of donations, May Moore partnered with a high school in upstate New York through a program called Project Stuffed Animals For Emergencies (SAFE). The schools combined donations were brought to the United Nations, which then facilitated the delivery of the stuffed animals to Haiti. The students’ goal was to provide children with a sense of security during this turbulent time in their lives, and the results were a huge success.
  
Each day students in Susan Steinman’s class collected and sorted the stuffed animals placed in the drop-off locations throughout the school. They used a teddy bear graph displayed in the school lobby to tabulate the number of stuffed animals collected.