Students Accept Pledges for 9/11 Project from 170 Volunteers

Attleboro students have been hard at work  creating a database of volunteers willing to take the pledge of volunteering one hour of their time in the community for Project 9/11.

students launched Project 9/11 on Wednesday, May 11, as a class project to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the tragic events that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001, and to raise funds for children impacted by the events.

Just one week into the project, 28 students — made up of 20 sophomores and eight juniors — have already signed up 170 people to volunteer, according to class advisor Attleboro High Teacher Rebecca Richard. 

"This is definitely a class effort," Richard said. "We have recruitment and retention coordinators, a student in charge of correspondence, we are making thank you bags for everyone who pledges and tells us about it and we are organizing an advertising table at the Attleboro Area School Day Games being held at North Attleboro next Tuesday."

"I am so excited to be a part of this project and to work with an amazing group of students," Richard added.

A caught the attention of Alisha Feltman, events and development coordinator for Tuesday's Children, the non-profit for which AHS students are raising funds. Feltman hopes to meet the students when they visit the World Trade Center site in New York City next month.