55 Westerville South IB students, parents, and chaperons left from the school Friday morning at 8:00 on their way to work in Louisiana for their first week of Christmas break. Many of these kids were in the group of 35 who went at the end of the last school year. Some have been down even more.
Whitney Hayes (hugging her dad Brad Goodbye) is on her third trip.
Rossy is on his 4th trip!
South IB has had good media coverage of this trip. Several newspaper stories have run and will run about the trip. They were on clear channel news interviews Friday and NBC4 (Columbus) was on hand to cover their departure.
Thanks to all the media involved for continuing to cover the need and the actions kids like these are taking to continue to help more than a year after the disaster began.
Thanks also to Cavalier Coach for working with us to minimize the costs of this trip. With 55 people going, rented vans were cost prohibitive.
Principal Bell was on hand to see off the team as were many, many parents and relatives.
We are very pleased to have the opportunity to work with the local schools to organize and sponsor these trips. These kids are an inspiration to all of us who serve in this effort through their personal participation and vigorous fundraising.
Check the blog through the week and next week for more updates as they come in.
Team 20 leaves December 26 so if you feel inspired, you can still take some Christmas break to join us. I'll be posting every day that week with our team's progress, the changes in the area since I was last there in May, and our progress working on new organizations to partner with around New Orleans.
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