Even more West Seattle help for Haiti, from Highland Park students

February 9, 2010 at 4:00 am | In Highland Park, How to help, West Seattle news | 3 Comments

We’ve reported several student fundraisers but hadn’t heard about this one till this item appeared in Seattle Public Schools‘ newest School Beat e-newsletter:

Highland Park Elementary students raised $1,091.35 in four days to aide the earthquake victims in Haiti. More than 80 percent of the students at Highland Park receive free and reduced-price lunch. The school’s head secretary, Margaret Young, helped organize the fund-raiser by asking teachers to share information about the devastation in Haiti . After adding up the collections each morning, Principal Ann Gray and head teacher Rhonda Moore read the total contribution amounts to the students.

“We praised the compassion, understanding and generous nature of our students and parents to give to such a worthy cause. Our students continued to donate their coins, which consisted of mostly pennies. The students were excited and proud … and so were we, as a school,” Moore said.

Congratulations!

3 Comments

  1. Great job Highland Park!!!

    Comment by JLaw — February 9, 10 10:53 am #

  2. Way to go! As a parent of a child at Highland Park I am very proud of our kids and happy to see how much they raised!

    Comment by Christie — February 10, 10 1:53 pm #

  3. Big thanks to the kids at Highland Park! My neighbor says Roxhill kids have also been busy raising $ for the Haiti quake victims. Can’t figure out why my daughter’s school (Arbor Heights) still hasn’t done any fundraising (though it sounds like they may finally be getting something started).

    Comment by Mike — February 10, 10 8:01 pm #

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