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Revolution Academy reaches out to those in Ukraine Students learn lifelong lessons by participating in service club project
Article contributed by LAURI FITE
Inspiration! From the start of the Russian invasion into Ukraine, my daughter, Autumn, and I were having open discussions about what we were hearing and seeing in the news. On one particularly bad news day in Ukraine, my daughter turned to me and said, “We have to do something! We can’t just stand here and
not do anything to help!” Only a few days before, I had showed her a Facebook post about her favorite elementary school teacher, Mrs. Kimberly Byrd, and her fifth grade class at Stokesdale Elementary organizing a successful donation campaign for those in Ukraine. Inspired by Mrs. Byrd and her class, we decided to take our idea of collecting donations to our school’s Rockin’ Rhinos Service Club, where Autumn serves as secretary. We gave a presentation to the club about Trinity Church in Greensboro, which hosts a Slavic community
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Students with Revolution Academy, a charter school on N.C. 150 in Summerfield, help load a Trinity Church van with donations they collected during the week of April 4-13. The donations of personal hygiene items and other essentials will be shipped the end of this month to Poland, and later make their way to a city in Ukraine, where they will be distributed to as many people as possible.
for worship services. Many members of that congregation have family in Ukraine and they are filling a shipping container with much needed supplies for those still living and trying to survive in Ukraine. After we gave the presentation, we asked the kids in the club if they were interested in running a similar
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campaign to help this church (they had just received a second shipping container which is leaving on a cargo ship later this month). There was 100% support from all of the members, and especially from the club’s president, Bryce Chapman (he was also a previous student of Mrs. Byrd).
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