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Friday, December 12, 2008
CDS Readathon Raises Funds For Needy Kids
By Beach Times Staff
More than 70 Country Day School children are going the extra mile starting this week in a readathon designed to help out schools in need.
CDS students from pre-kindergarten to sixth grade committed themselves earlier this week to helping Brasilito and Huacas schools with continuing their studies.
“The idea with this reading marathon is that each child chooses a book,” explains CDS teacher Julieta Mourelo, “and for each page they read their parents give money in ‘payment’. In this way, the child collects funds to pay for scholarly material, so that children from nearby schools can begin the 2009 academic year.”
 
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Students will be collecting pledge money until Monday, December 15. All pledge money is being given to the non-profit after school center Cultura, Educación y Psicología Para la Infancia y la Adolescencia (CEPIA).
Thirty students from Escuela de Brasilito’s fourth and sixth grades also participated, said CDS’s Coordinating Teacher of Elementary grades, Sarah Haun.
The goal, says Ms Haun, is to reach $6000, which is why we’ve invited the CDS student community and their families to participate.
“We need to work hand in hand, so that we may encourage reading themes which interest and excite the kids, instilling them with values of solidarity,” she said.
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