Essay On American Red Cross
Tuscaloosa City Schools (TCS) Executive Director of Human Resources, Deron Cameron, presented the West Alabama chapter of the American Red Cross with a check totaling close to $8,000 on Wednesday, September 13.
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey announced that Friday, September 1 would be College Colors Day throughout the state to celebrate the start of the college football season. The schools used that day to ask students to wear their school colors and bring in money to donate to hurricane victims, said Beth Curtis, the principal at Verner Elementary School.
“[The students] brought in pennies and nickels and dimes and we ended up with $2,000 from our school alone,” Curtis said.
The school system decided to raise money after Hurricane Harvey …show more content…
“So the donation that was made by the Tuscaloosa City School employees was donated for hurricane relief and that is exactly where the money …show more content…
“The money goes to providing a safe place to stay for victims and then for food,” Powell said. “Then once the floodwaters recede and the immediate danger is over, we begin doing damage assessments. From there we are able to allocate the money to those who need it most. 91 cents of every dollar goes directly towards relief efforts, meaning that more of the money that was donated will actually make it to where the school wanted it to go.”
TCS chose the Red Cross as the recipient of their funds after much research. It was important to the school system that the funds would go to those who truly needed them most. “We thought that the Red Cross was the best way to get our money to who we wanted,” Cameron said. “They would be able to get it to the families that really need this relief effort.”
Part of the culture in the Tuscaloosa City Schools is the idea of paying forward the kindness shown to the city after the 2011
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey announced that Friday, September 1 would be College Colors Day throughout the state to celebrate the start of the college football season. The schools used that day to ask students to wear their school colors and bring in money to donate to hurricane victims, said Beth Curtis, the principal at Verner Elementary School.
“[The students] brought in pennies and nickels and dimes and we ended up with $2,000 from our school alone,” Curtis said.
The school system decided to raise money after Hurricane Harvey …show more content…
“So the donation that was made by the Tuscaloosa City School employees was donated for hurricane relief and that is exactly where the money …show more content…
“The money goes to providing a safe place to stay for victims and then for food,” Powell said. “Then once the floodwaters recede and the immediate danger is over, we begin doing damage assessments. From there we are able to allocate the money to those who need it most. 91 cents of every dollar goes directly towards relief efforts, meaning that more of the money that was donated will actually make it to where the school wanted it to go.”
TCS chose the Red Cross as the recipient of their funds after much research. It was important to the school system that the funds would go to those who truly needed them most. “We thought that the Red Cross was the best way to get our money to who we wanted,” Cameron said. “They would be able to get it to the families that really need this relief effort.”
Part of the culture in the Tuscaloosa City Schools is the idea of paying forward the kindness shown to the city after the 2011