Education

Hanahan Middle Students Raise Nearly $7,000 For Charity

SLEUTHS 2015HANAHAN, S.C.–Hanahan Middle School’s Service Learning Extraordinaire, United Teens Helping Society Club (SLEUTHS) raised and donated $6,689.85 to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Pennies for Patients program.

 “The SLEUTHS Club and the entire Hanahan Middle School community have a serious commitment to service learning and contributing to the needs of others. We would like to challenge the service clubs of other schools to join in the effort,” said Hanahan Middle School Principal, Robin Rogers.

For the last 15 years, the SLEUTHS leadership team has chosen to raise funds for Pennies for Patients as one of its service projects. To raise money, the school promoted homeroom and grade competitions as well as a King and Queen of Hearts Contest. SLEUTH Club members served as cheerleaders adopting all of the homeroom classes, giving pep talks and awarding students with candy every Friday. The school maintained a heart bar graph in the cafeteria and made announcements about grade-level leaders and the overall school leader to encourage continuous participation. Club members collected money from each homeroom for 18 days in January and February.

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Southeast Region Campaign Director for School & Youth, Leah Tomlin, was appreciative of the money the school raised for LLS. Thanking the students and teacher coordinator for their efforts, Tomlin said, “I am reaching out today to thank you for the absolutely amazing job that you and your students did with our Pennies program this year at Hanahan Middle School. By raising $6,689.85, you are not only one of the top fundraising schools within your chapter, but also across the entire region! Your support of our mission is truly inspiring and it is because of wonderful coordinators like you that we are going to find a cure for cancer not someday, but today.”

Pennies for Patients is one of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s service learning, education and philanthropy programs.

The organization provides schools with lesson plans that meet service learning and character education standards, classroom collection boxes, individual collection boxes, an educational video, prizes and awards and an opportunity for an educational kickoff assembly. Using these resources, students collect as much money as they can for three-week period.

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