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St. Therese School donates winter wear to Aurora’s needy
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Each November, St. Therese School in Aurora conducts an All-School Charitable Collection. This year, different from the food collections of previous years, the school’s 185 prekindergarten through eighth-grade students collected winter items, including hats, gloves, scarves, mittens and socks for Aurora Warms the Night.
The students collected some 500 items for the nonprofit whose mission is to preserve the life, health and stability of Aurora’s men, women and children facing homelessness through vouchers for shelter, toiletries, food and other supplies.
Items collected were presented during the offertory at the school’s Thanksgiving Mass Nov. 22, before being delivered to program director Donna Potter, the former director of Catholic Charities emergency assistance center in Aurora that closed in August.
“What’s neat is that we are an inner-city school and some of our students are almost in as much need as those we took the winter items to,” said principal Laura Dement. “We want to teach them to give even if they don’t have a lot themselves … like the woman of the parable in the temple, with two coins.”
Students in the photo at left model some of the items collected.
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