Honors Club Invites All to Donate Toys for Children

by Olivia Appleton

Throughout March, the Honors Club at 4C’s is collecting toys for children in need at Housing Assistance shelters. There are multiple sites set up around campus for students to donate toys. The toys can be balls, chalk, bubbles, jump-ropes, and much more. The Honors Club is using its resources to help children in need through this toy drive.

“Kids often arrive to our shelters with few or no toys – the items that help them feel some stability and normalcy in their lives” says Kathryn Eident, the director of Marketing and Communications at the Housing Assistance Corporation. “Staying in a shelter can be especially tough for children; they can be the victims of bullying and feel a lot of shame and embarrassment about where their family is staying. While it may seem like a small token, a new toy for children in this situation can help them do what they do best  – get outside and play and just be a kid.”

Donation sites are located in the Grossman Commons cafeteria; Lorusso Building, first floor; Maureen Murphy Wilkens Hall, ground floor and Room 207; and Wilkens Library.

“We’re so grateful the students of the Honors Club have chosen Housing Assistance for this drive and are keeping in mind some of our community’s most vulnerable people – children,” Eident says.

Amber Rivard, MainSheet editor-in-chief is one of the organizers of this toy drive. See Rivard’s “Letter to the readers” for more information.

(Olivia Appleton)

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