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Walker School Students Hosts Donation Drive for Hazelwood Reponse Team
The Student Council at Walker Elementary School in the Hazelwood School District led a two-week campaign to collect items to donate to the Hazelwood Community Response Team (CRT).
Students collectively donated 260 items such as cleaning supplies, personal hygiene and baby products.
The Hazelwood School District Community Response Team is a multi-disciplinary, geographically specific team of service providers and community members working together to serve students and families within the District. Hazelwood CRT refers families to community resources and, when possible, provides direct assistance when existing resources are not accessible.
Pat Brown, instructional specialist, said the student council decided to help Hazelwood CRT because the need for supplies by the group was brought to their attention by Dr. Eric Arbetter, principal of Walker Elementary.
The service project helped teach students about leadership, and several shared their thoughts.
Myranda Cook, a third-grader, said “The service project helped me become a better leader because it felt good helping people in need with everything we got for the CRT.”
“Doing the service project with Student Council helped people in need. We helped them by giving them items like washing items and baby items and much more,” said Hailey Plue, a third-grader.
Brittany Wintrode, a fifth-grade student, said “This service project helped me understand that collecting stuff for people in need is sometimes fun.”
“The collection helped me understand that when we help collect stuff for people in need, we feel good. It made me feel great,” said fifth-grader Arsema Esayas.
