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Delaware School for the Deaf giving gifts to families in need - Newark Post: Schools
The "Helping Snowpeople Project" at DSD is a yearly event in which the DSD community supports some of our families for the holidays. School psychologists collect names of families who may have fallen upon hard times, they then call the parents to ask if they would be interested in being involved and, if so, ask for the primary needs of the family.
The ages, genders and items that are needed are written on paper "snowpeople" and hung on a tree in the lobby. Staff members (and sometimes other parents or community members) take one or more items and purchase them. One of our high school classes wraps them as part of a community project and they are brought to the Psychology office to wait to be delivered.
The gifts we collected this year were delivered during the last week of school. One family's treasures went home on the bus, one family's were delivered by our downstate itinerant teacher, two were picked up by parents, and two were personally delivered to the homes.
In all, this year, we supported six families from Preschool through Middle School. The generosity of our community is unbelievable. The gratitude from the families is deep - the look on their faces is unforgettable, several cry, but all so graciously accept and thank everyone here.
The gifts are anonymous - who they go to and who has bought them is not known, there is no tax receipt available, it's just pure, selfless giving because we know there is so much need and because we are a family and we take care of our own!
The mission of the Delaware School for the Deaf, a program serving Deaf and hard of hearing students birth through twenty-one years of age, is to educate students with rigorous achievement standards, to develop their linguistic competence in both ASL and English, and to prepare them to be contributing citizens, by providing access to language and information in a safe and supportive learning environment.
The "Helping Snowpeople Project" at DSD is a yearly event in which the DSD community supports some of our families for the holidays. School psychologists collect names of families who may have fallen upon hard times, they then call the parents to ask if they would be interested in being involved and, if so, ask for the primary needs of the family.
The ages, genders and items that are needed are written on paper "snowpeople" and hung on a tree in the lobby. Staff members (and sometimes other parents or community members) take one or more items and purchase them. One of our high school classes wraps them as part of a community project and they are brought to the Psychology office to wait to be delivered.
The gifts we collected this year were delivered during the last week of school. One family's treasures went home on the bus, one family's were delivered by our downstate itinerant teacher, two were picked up by parents, and two were personally delivered to the homes.
In all, this year, we supported six families from Preschool through Middle School. The generosity of our community is unbelievable. The gratitude from the families is deep - the look on their faces is unforgettable, several cry, but all so graciously accept and thank everyone here.
The gifts are anonymous - who they go to and who has bought them is not known, there is no tax receipt available, it's just pure, selfless giving because we know there is so much need and because we are a family and we take care of our own!
The mission of the Delaware School for the Deaf, a program serving Deaf and hard of hearing students birth through twenty-one years of age, is to educate students with rigorous achievement standards, to develop their linguistic competence in both ASL and English, and to prepare them to be contributing citizens, by providing access to language and information in a safe and supportive learning environment.