FCSLA In the Community: Join Hands Day
OLOAA and FCSLA Join in "Operation Helping Hands"
Each spring students at Our Lady of the Angels Academy, Lansford, team up
with the First Catholic Slovak Ladies Association to support a project
for a needy cause. This year the team effort was extended to help Father
James Sandy and his St. Mary's Orphanage and School in Sierra Leone,
West Africa, by collecting much needed clothing and school supplies
for the children of St. Mary's. The collected items will be sent
to St. Mary's in August through the efforts of the "One Love Foundation," based
in Summit Hill.
The "One Love Foundation" supports St. Mary's Orphanage, St. Theresa's
and St. Peter's schools in Gerihun, Sierra Leone, West Africa, and
the more than 300 children displaced by years of Civil War. The
village of Gerihun has no running water or electricity, and the area is
infested with mosquitoes which transmit malaria. The children are the
most vulnerable.
"One Love" ships 40 ft. cargo containers to Father
Sandy's Orphanage that are filled to the brim with donated items. The total
cost to ship these containers from the eastern U.S. to the final destination
exceeds $8000. FCSLA Lansford Branches #140 and #46, Coaldale Branches #417
and #318, and Nesquehoning Branches #410 and #321 provided a generous
monetary donation to help defray the high cost of container
shipping.
For more information about the "One Love Foundation," see
their website at
Shown in the photo are (front, from left) FCSLA participants and members Samantha
McCarthy, Anthony Stianchie, Adam Gilbert, Brayden Webb, Rachel Chuma,
Taylor Paton, and Ethan Vermillion; (back, from left) Louise Dunstan (Financial
Secretary/Treasurer, FCSLA #140), Mary Ciganek (Vice President, FCSLA #140)
Maria Stianchie (One Love Foundation), Veronica Bazik (President, FCSLA #140),
and Sister Regina Elinich, IHM (Principal, OLOAA).
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