Liisa's former student Carmel Delshad with the supplies collected by Judy Cogorno Voisard and her co-workers at Pride Elementary in Volusia County, FL
From Liisa, SMSgt Temple’s wife: One of the student journalists at University of Tampa where I teach part-time wrote this article about the school supplies drive. Let’s hope it helps us get more young people involved in the process. Meanwhile, I picked up another carload of school supplies at University of South Florida yesterday from a former student of mine who got a friend involved in Volusia County, Florida. That friend is Judy Cogorno Voisard and in a Facebook message to us she gives all the credit to her co-workers at Pride Elementary saying “Thanks for the recognition, but it is my fellow teachers that are also amazing. We are a low income school so we understand.”
THANK YOU, CARMEL, JUDY AND THE TEACHERS AT PRIDE ELEMENTARY!
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The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the blog post From the Front: 10/08/2009 News and Personal dispatches from the front and the home front.
Yay! I’m so happy this worked out in Volusia County, thanks to Judy and her friends!
We may not be soldiers in the typical sense, but as educators we do what we can to help solve this difficult problem that is known as Afghanistan. The most important element of this school supplies project is knowing that those of us at home can make a difference in a country so far away. We can do it without government intervention because it is the right thing to do as caring Americans.
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