Students helping future moms

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Shannon LeClair
Times Reporter

 

The Strathmore Pregnancy Care Centre (PCC) got a helping hand from Grade 8 and 9 leadership students recently. Students from Trinity Christian Academy put baby bottle piggy banks in different classrooms to collect change, among a few other small fundraisers throughout the month of October.
Over $300 was raised and teacher Jay Nelson then phoned PCC to find out their specific needs. Jenn Page, coordinator of the Strathmore PCC, gave Nelson a few idease, and he bought everything on the list including, diapers, wipes, creams, powders, soothers, gift bags and tissue paper.
“When we walk through a pregnancy with a client and once they deliver we get a hold of them and we kind of put together a gift bag of all new items, some things for mom, some things for baby, but they’re all brand new,” said Page. The gift bags are called layettes.
“This is a great start and we’ve even had other donations from other people for our layettes which have been knitted blankets, brand new onesies, sleepers that sort of thing.”
“We’ll even take little gifts for mom too, if anybody wants to donate that. That’s kind of what I think is lacking right now,” said Drinda Hyde, also with the PCC.
The students were invited on a tour of PCC and their clothing room, and had a chance to find out first hand how the centre works, what they do and how they help their clients.
“We collected change and cause we wanted to do different fundraisers for our leadership class we decided to fundraise for that,” said Jessica Turner, Grade 9.
“It felt good to help, and it was cool to see where the money was going. Instead of sending it somewhere we could see actually what it would go to.”
“Not everybody knows about it so (we wanted to) help something that’s not as big as like the food bank,” said Danai Allan.
Trinity school is involved with We Day and Free the Children; through them schools are able to pick both a local and global charity to raise funds for. The global charity is still to be officially determined.