After Typhoon Halong devastated coastal communities in Western Alaska, a group of students at George S. Mickelson Middle School in Brookings rolled up their sleeves to try and help kids whose schools had been destroyed.
Jennifer Lacher-Starace is adviser to the Brookings middle school chapter of ‘Educators Rising’ — a group of students who hope to someday become teachers themselves… “One of our members’ moms reached out to me and said, hey I’m connected with a couple schools in Alaska from a previous project she had done — and she said they were wiped out by these typhoons, and the children were having to be sent from their village schools. I think there were two communities that could take them in, and one of them was Anchorage — which is hundreds and hundreds of miles away.”
So the Brookings kids transformed their own fundraiser into something to help the kids in Alaska… “We already were helping at a concession stand as a fundraiser for us — we have to raise money to pay for expenses to travel to our state conference — and the kids decided, why not take that money from that concession stand and, whatever we raise, we’ll put it towards buying school supplies for these children.”…