Julius West Students Donate To Haiti Relief

Organizations and individuals all through Rockville are donating to relief efforts in the quake-stricken Haiti. (>For example, KidzCare.) Here’s a new effort that just crossed our desk.

Gail Fribush, the IB Middle Years Program director at Julius West Middle School recently wrote the following, which was shared with the JW community:

“Why I’m Proud to Work at Julius West”

From Gail Fribush

On January 15, three days after the earthquake in Haiti, we began an effort to collect money to aid with relief efforts. Students were encouraged to bring in spare change (or bills) to fill our large water bottle and BOSS, SGA and French students helped to coordinate and encourage contributions during lunch each day.

Here is what the water bottle looked like after 5 days.

Students had an opportunity to guess how much we collected before we counted the money, and I think we were all amazed at how much all of those pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and bills added up. In fact we collected $2,224.32!

The money was sent to the Save the Children Foundation Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund. For me personally one of the best parts of the drive was seeing the number of students who brought in zip lock bags full of change, as well as those who gave a little each day that we were collecting. So while there may be a few more empty piggy banks in Rockville, there was much to be proud of here as our students proved once again that they are well on their way to becoming responsible global citizens.

Thanks to parents for raising such great kids and for your support as well.

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