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Objective: 1.5 million pennies

Students of Terry Fox Elementary School want to reach out to African children

par Diane Hameury
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Article mis en ligne le 25 mars 2008 à 11:33
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Every penny counts, and there will certainly be lots of them to count by the time students at Terry Fox School reach the end of a fundraising project they've put together for the children of Uganda. The objective: 1.5 million pennies ($15,000). Having collected $500 in a very short time, they're well on their way to achieving their goal. Leading the project are Samuel Marineau-De Grandmont, Benjamin St-Onge, Michele Ricci, and Justin Di Genova. (Photo: Martin Alarie)

Students of Terry Fox Elementary School want to reach out to African children

Justin Di Genova, Samuel Marineau-De Grandmont, Michele Ricci and Benjamin St-Onge, students at Terry Fox Elementary School, have given themselves quite a mission for this school year: to collect 1.5 million pennies!

The $15,000 will be donated to the Namuwongo Literacy Project, a program that comes to the aid of school children in Uganda, and which was launched by former Laval school administrator, now retired, Howard Shapiro.

“These six-graders came up with the project after doing a class project on the Holocaust,” recounts Terry Fox principal Tina Korb. The number of pennies they have decided to raise (1.5 million) represents the number of children killed in the Holocaust. The pupils of the Auteuil district school had read about a school in Japan that had made 1.5 million paper birds in memory of the slain children and that’s where they got the idea to collect the pennies,” adds Mrs. Korb, who suggested that the $15,000 be donated to the African project.

Snowball effect

The initiative of the children to collect the pennies quickly spread throughout the school. Teachers and administrators, who have been very helpful to the children, have decided to earmark the profits of the school’s annual fashion show toward the project. The show, scheduled for April, is expected to pump about $4000 into the Terry Fox Big Give.

“To date, we’ve collected $500, with many students doing their part. We have even had kindergarten students come into my office, hands full of pennies!” Mrs. Korb confides.

Mrs. Korb, who’s into her first year as principal of terry Fox School, also tells of the resident of St-Leonard donating $100 to the project, following a news report on TVA.

Vimont MNA Vincent Auclair will contribute ecology bags to the project, but not just any bags, they will be special bags personalized by the Terry Fox students with some of their favourite images. The proceeds from the sale of these bags will be added to the general collection of the pennies.

Anyone wishing to make a financial contribute to the project can deliver their donations to the school at 900 Lacasse Avenue in Vimont.

Photo: Terry Fox 1

(Photo: Martin Alarie)

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