Essay On American Red Cross
Tuscaloosa City Schools (TCS) Executive Director of Human Resources, Deron Cameron, presented the West Alabama chapter of the American Red Cross with a check totaling close to $8,000 on Wednesday, September 13.
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey announced that Friday, September 1 would be College Colors Day throughout the state to celebrate the start of the college football season. The schools used that day to ask students to wear their school colors and bring in money to donate to hurricane victims, said Beth Curtis, the principal at Verner Elementary School.
“[The students] brought in pennies and nickels and dimes and we ended up with $2,000 from our school alone,” Curtis said.
The school system decided to raise money after Hurricane Harvey …show more content…
devastated parts of South Texas.
“The Red Cross honors donor intent,” said Beakie Powell, executive director for the West Alabama chapter of the American Red Cross.
“So the donation that was made by the Tuscaloosa City School employees was donated for hurricane relief and that is exactly where the money …show more content…
goes.”
The American Red Cross offers short-term relief aid for victims of disasters such as the recent hurricane.
“The money goes to providing a safe place to stay for victims and then for food,” Powell said. “Then once the floodwaters recede and the immediate danger is over, we begin doing damage assessments. From there we are able to allocate the money to those who need it most. 91 cents of every dollar goes directly towards relief efforts, meaning that more of the money that was donated will actually make it to where the school wanted it to go.”
TCS chose the Red Cross as the recipient of their funds after much research. It was important to the school system that the funds would go to those who truly needed them most. “We thought that the Red Cross was the best way to get our money to who we wanted,” Cameron said. “They would be able to get it to the families that really need this relief effort.”
Part of the culture in the Tuscaloosa City Schools is the idea of paying forward the kindness shown to the city after the 2011
tornadoes.
“We are certainly paying it forward on all the great donations and wonderful things we received after the April 27 tornado,” Curtis said. “So this was a way for us to pay it forward. It also gave us a way to get us thinking outside of the Tuscaloosa community and thinking about what can be done to help others. We want to foster that constant mindset of how we can help others.”
“I think this is part of paying it back,” Cameron said. “We just have really great people, great employees, great children and their families who have kind hearts.”
The individual schools believe strongly in teaching the importance of serving others to the students every day.
“I really believe that [the student’s] service learning is as important as their academic learning, and they are very empathetic children,” Curtis said. “[They] are really involved in community needs, and we also have a good student council that gets really involved in service projects too.”
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey announced that Friday, September 1 would be College Colors Day throughout the state to celebrate the start of the college football season. The schools used that day to ask students to wear their school colors and bring in money to donate to hurricane victims, said Beth Curtis, the principal at Verner Elementary School.
“[The students] brought in pennies and nickels and dimes and we ended up with $2,000 from our school alone,” Curtis said.
The school system decided to raise money after Hurricane Harvey …show more content…
devastated parts of South Texas.
“The Red Cross honors donor intent,” said Beakie Powell, executive director for the West Alabama chapter of the American Red Cross.
“So the donation that was made by the Tuscaloosa City School employees was donated for hurricane relief and that is exactly where the money …show more content…
goes.”
The American Red Cross offers short-term relief aid for victims of disasters such as the recent hurricane.
“The money goes to providing a safe place to stay for victims and then for food,” Powell said. “Then once the floodwaters recede and the immediate danger is over, we begin doing damage assessments. From there we are able to allocate the money to those who need it most. 91 cents of every dollar goes directly towards relief efforts, meaning that more of the money that was donated will actually make it to where the school wanted it to go.”
TCS chose the Red Cross as the recipient of their funds after much research. It was important to the school system that the funds would go to those who truly needed them most. “We thought that the Red Cross was the best way to get our money to who we wanted,” Cameron said. “They would be able to get it to the families that really need this relief effort.”
Part of the culture in the Tuscaloosa City Schools is the idea of paying forward the kindness shown to the city after the 2011
tornadoes.
“We are certainly paying it forward on all the great donations and wonderful things we received after the April 27 tornado,” Curtis said. “So this was a way for us to pay it forward. It also gave us a way to get us thinking outside of the Tuscaloosa community and thinking about what can be done to help others. We want to foster that constant mindset of how we can help others.”
“I think this is part of paying it back,” Cameron said. “We just have really great people, great employees, great children and their families who have kind hearts.”
The individual schools believe strongly in teaching the importance of serving others to the students every day.
“I really believe that [the student’s] service learning is as important as their academic learning, and they are very empathetic children,” Curtis said. “[They] are really involved in community needs, and we also have a good student council that gets really involved in service projects too.”