High School Service Club Members Help Get Holiday Toys to Kids
Interact members helped with Richmond and El Cerrito Firefighters Toy Program.
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Sophomore Qiqi Tang (left) and Junior Jennifer Welden, both members of El Cerrito High School's Interact club, stack board games soon to be bagged.
Zoey Wolinsky
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The annual Richmond and El Cerrito Firefighters Toy Program depends on the donation of many toys to give to economically disadvantaged children. But it also requires another kind of contribution: help getting the toys organized and distributed.
Members of El Cerrito High School's Interact club, a service learning organization, were among those helping out this year.
In mid-December, Interact volunteers assisted firefighters as well as volunteers from other organizations in unloading donated children's toys brought to a storage area.
Unloading and bagging the toys was a week long process, from Dec. 13 to 17 . On Dec. 21, Interact then helped to transport the toys to the YMCA on South 20th Street for distribution.
On Dec. 22, Interact helped to distribute the toys to the families. More than 2,000 families were provided with toys.
Interacters were well rewarded by seeing the smiles on children's faces as they helped to distribute the toys.
Interact has helped with the toy drive for at least three years.
— Zoey Wolinsky, Interact Club
Madame Hat aka Christina Van Horn
5:09 pm on Saturday, January 1, 2011
Thank you, Zoey, and the rest of the El Cerrito Interactors, for all the work you put into the firefighters' gift for needy children project. You really really epitomize the Rotary motto, "Service Above Self." I can't wait to hear more about your upcoming fundraiser, the Black and White Dance. Yours in Rotary!
Terry Pace
8:24 am on Thursday, January 6, 2011
The Interact kids make such a difference in our toy program. I can't express how much we appreciate their tireless effort in the cold, rain dark and they still keep working. You made such a difference!! Thanks from a very grateful firefighter elf!!
Terry