March 8, 2010 issue
Lancaster students aid Haitians
By Fern Clemmer Lancaster Mennonite SchoolLANCASTER, Pa. — Lancaster Mennonite School students have partnered with Mennonite Central Committee in responding to the needs of Haitians after the devastating earthquake that hit that country.
Lancaster Mennonite School students and staff with relief kit supplies, from left: Mitchell Steffy; Keila Rivas-Hernandez, LMS food services; Luke Trimble; Dottie Weber, food services director; Monica Steffy; Stephanie Vazquez; and Linnae Budusky. — Photo by LMS
The high school Student Council, headed by Molly Leaman, organized a Penny Power project where each class had a bucket for coin collection available during the lunch periods.
Student Council junior Carissa Harnish helped get the project off the ground.
“We have students from Haiti, and we wanted to show that the Christian community can get involved and that everyone can help, including students,” she said.
Middle school students at LMS’s Lancaster Campus also got involved in the relief efforts by collecting items for relief kits that MCC will package into sealed buckets and send to Haiti.
Middle school students and staff collected more than 500 health and hygiene items, which include combs, fingernail clippers, toothpaste, tooth brushes, adhensive bandages, sanitary napkins, body soap, laundry soap, shampoo and towels.
Judi Mollenkof, principal of LMS’s Locust Grove and New Danville campuses, said that elementary and middle school students would collect pennies for Haiti during March. They had a kickoff for the project on Feb. 15.
At the Kraybill campus, eighth graders are also learning they can make a difference in the world. They are making monetary contributions until the end of the school year. One of their teachers will match the total amount they contribute.
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