Lehman College Child Care is leading Imagine Centers in a Jump a thon to raise awareness and much needed funds for the children of Joplin, Missouri. The children will collect sponsors for a special day of jumping and helping!! If you would like to sponsor a child please fill out the form provided on the link Forms on the sidebar.
Imagine children, parents, families and teachers fun raised 950.55 for Japan. Many of the centers participated in a Coins and Cans Campaign for Japan. They partnered with Mother's Touch a Head Start early childhood program in Engelwood, Chicago. Mother's Touch raised 82.00 for a total of $1032.55. The money is being donated to UNICEF to set up 4 temporary schools using their School-in-a Box Kits.
For our 2011 Kids for Kids FUNraiser the Directors decided on Imagine Giving Back. Each center selected a program in their community or sponsoring institution to give back to. All the children and teachers gave back to their parents and all shared wonderful parent celebrations. Imagine Newark made individual keepsake pins for each family with their child's footprint on them, Jamaica sponsored a talent show night by the teachers for all parents with an art show and poetry reading by the children.
For Imagine Giving Back imagine Port made homemade dog treats for the local animal hospital and delivered one of a kind art work by the children to local businesses. Imagine BSC planted flowers for the local ecology site and Islip and Brooklyn Heights did some much needed gardening outside their centers for the neighborhood. Imagine at Lehman College Child Care sponsored Singing Children Telegrams all over the Lehman Campus, Mt Sinai Kids made beautiful baskets filled with goodies, some hand made by the children to share with the children at the Child Life Program at Mt. Sinai Hospital. The children at Imagine Dumbo designed and made bracelets to sell. Vets Kids did a clothing swap and a gallery walk featuring children's art work.
All the children, teachers and families have shared a special week. The monies earned will go to Kids for Kids and help support our sister program DFC in Kibera Slum in Nairobi, Kenya.
The children continue to raise awareness for Japan through their FUNraiser Coins and Can for Japan. By collecting plastic bottles to raise much needed funds they are also remembering and celebrating Earth Day. For all of us......it feels good to be able to help.
posted Aug 15, 2011, 2:59 PM by Ken Marlin [ updated Oct 22, 2015, 10:06 AM by Holly Saltzman ]
For our 2011 Kids for Kids Fun Raiser the Directors decided on Imagine Giving Back. Each center selected a program in their community or sponsoring institution to give back to. All the children and teachers gave back to their parents and all shared wonderful parent celebrations. Imagine Newark made individual keepsake pins for each family with their child's footprint on them, Jamaica sponsored a talent show night by the teachers for all parents with an art show and poetry reading by the children.
For Imagine Giving Back imagine Port made homemade dog treats for the local animal hospital and delivered one of a kind art work by the children to local businesses. Imagine BSC planted flowers for the local ecology site and Islip and Brooklyn Heights did some much needed gardening outside their centers for the neighborhood. Imagine at Lehman College Child Care sponsored Singing Children Telegrams all over the Lehman Campus, Mt Sinai Kids made beautiful baskets filled with goodies, some hand made by the children to share with the children at the Child Life Program at Mt. Sinai Hospital. The children at Imagine Dumbo designed and made bracelets to sell. Vets Kids did a clothing swap and a gallery walk featuring children's art work.
All the children, teachers and families have shared a special week. The monies earned will go to Kids for Kids and help support our sister program DFC in Kibera Slum in Nairobi, Kenya.
The children continue to raise awareness for Japan through their Fun Raiser Coins and Can for Japan. By collecting plastic bottles to raise much needed funds they are also remembering and celebrating Earth Day. For all of us......it feels good to be able to help.
July 7, 2010
The five Imagine teachers representing Imagine Kids for Kids at our sister school DFC in the Kibera Slum in Kenya returned from the 2010 Africa trip. Theresa Hendricks from imagine DUMBO and Jessica Wurster from BSC KIDS were recipients of an Imagine's Imagination Innovation award covering part of their travel expenses. Along with Jaci Maurer, the trip leader from Lehman College Child Care, Johanna Rojas also from Lehman and Lashana Dumpson from Imagine at Port Washington, all the Imagineers traveled with gifts and letters from Imagine children to the children at DFC. All had a life changing experience.
While there they expanded on the 2010 Kids for Kids theme, the Grow-a thon and planted tomato plants and tress and flowers with the DFC staff and children. They met with the DFC teachers to improve our on going pen pal relationship, helped to build DFC a new dining hall, took an amazing safari and saw the migration of the wildebeest.
In the next few weeks they will put together a slide show to share with all of Imagine. We look forward to a presentation about their trip at the October conference.
