Students of Wills Primary School Helping Hands group are on a mission to spread Christmas cheer, not only to the less fortunate here, but also to those in islands ravaged by the passing of hurricanes this year.
According to teacher Shelley Roach, patron of Helping Hands, the school’s fund-raising arm, this year they decided that instead of their usual gift exchange pupils would purchase a gift for a needy child their age.
“With the problems Dominica had and so on, [we decided] to do a gift giving to the poor. Every child in the school brought a gift for a child of their age who is needy. There are about 240 children, and some children brought in more than one, so we had almost 300 gifts brought in for the needy. We have given gifts to St Vincent de Paul and to the Care Ministries,” she explained yesterday during a gift presentation to St Vincent de Paul and Living Water Community at the school’s Maxwell, Christ Church compound. (RA)