001[Music] high school students in southern New Jersey reach beyond themselves turn native thoughts into action to support a fellow student and raise money for a cause here to tell us more is Diane Kishida teacher of English a Cape May County Technical High School one of our students here at Tech had lost their mother this past year due to breast cancer so the students wanted to rally around her and show support so as the class advisor for the sophomore class we pulled together and organized this fundraiser to help show support for that students well this fundraiser meant a lot to me just because of what's been going on in my personal life recently breast cancer has affected a big majority of my life and my mother and so being a part of this fundraiser it was
002very special to me we wanted to keep it to a local organization so we found the Susan komen foundation in four central South Jersey so my name is Suzanne Carson and I'm the executive director of Susan G Komen Center on South Jersey 75% of the money that we raise each year stays locally this year we funded ten different organizations within our 13 counties that go out and provide free mammograms educate and provide transportation fund child care translation services any sort of financial assistance you start out with our goal was to possibly sell thousand you know to raise at least a thousand dollars if not more I thought that everyone really worked hard and worked together to reach the goal we had set and they dedicated a lot of their time to this everyone was involved
003I have to say I mean the class of 2020 all the sophomores however it went beyond that it was every class every student teachers were involved they showed support by buying bracelets giving donations wearing paint on the day that we designated as wear pink day students who wanted to show the support who sacrificed their lunch time to sell bracelets during art their lunch hour really the whole school became involved in this event I had immense pride and the entire student body we had a fundraiser earlier this year that was just going to go towards the our class and we didn't have that much participation but when we took ourselves out of the equation and made it towards something greater than us everybody pulled through and worked together to achieve a higher goal and we were
004able to achieve the goal of a thousand dollars [Applause] when you can give your time to a non-profit you can grow you can learn and see where you want your future to take you we have a lot of different youth events the youth are really you can feel their excitement and their energy and we really appreciate having them there we have you know kids that are have feel the effects of breast cancer within their family and they take charge based on the results and people's outpouring of support I think it's a cause that is very near and dear to many people's hearts everyone rallied around this and I'm you know proud of our school proud of our students proud of our staff proud that that everyone rallied around this event and showed their support in
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