The staff at the Conseil scolaire catholique du Nouvelon board office will donate a total of close to $9,000 to five Greater Sudbury charities to help support those in need this Christmas season.
The Maison McCulloch Hospice, Association des jeunes de la rue de Sudbury, NEO Kids Foundation, Pregnancy Care Centre and Infant Food Bank and ALS North East Ontario each received a donation of about $1,800.
Throughout the year, CSCNO board office employees are offered the opportunity to contribute $2 each week to take advantage of dress-down Fridays.
This initiative is among the many other charitable endeavours at numerous CSC Nouvelon schools and at the board’s head office, said a press release.
A number of schools have prepared Christmas hampers for underprivileged families of the community, while some have begun a non-perishable food drive for their community food bank.
Still others have chosen to help children in foreign countries by contributing to the Samaritan’s Purse Canada Operation Christmas Child. Finally, at CSC Nouvelon’s head office, winter clothing and personal hygiene items were gathered for donation to the Association des jeunes de la rue de Sudbury.
“The generosity of our students and employees is a fine demonstration of the value of helping one another, which is so central to Catholic education,” stated CSC Nouvelon director of education Lyse-Anne Papineau, in the press release.
“I am proud to be part of this group of people who are so committed to contribute to the well-being of the less fortunate members of our communities.”
