Odyssey Day School Community Service Club hosting events for Sister School Project with Syrian Refugees in May

The Odyssey Day School Community Service Club, which is made up of about 18 students in first through eighth grade, has committed to a partnership with a school serving children who have had to flee the violence of the civil war in Syria, and are hosting two activities open to the whole community in May as part of this Sister School Project. The first is an Interactive Forum with staff from UNICEF and members of NuDay Syria who will lead a discussion on the situation facing child refugees currently, to be held on Wednesday, May 17, at 7PM at Odyssey Day School, 2 Audubon Rd in Wakefield. The event if free and open to the public, and is designed with students in grades 5 and above as the target audience. RSVPs are appreciated so we can plan seating and refreshments, and should be sent to: kimh@odysseydayschool.org. For more information please email Kim at that address or call her at the Odyssey office at (781)245-6050.

The other May activity the Club is sponsoring is a Supply Drive for their Sister School to try to raise a number of supplies that the school has indicated they especially could use at this time. The supplies will be shipped to the school in a container by NuDay Syria, and items that are particularly desired include: Pencil cases filled with pencils, pens, markers, crayons, and erasers; soccer balls of various sizes; packs of children's underwear and socks (the children in the school are first through sixth grade and there are 700 of them, and most have older and younger siblings); jump ropes, both children's individual ones and ones designed for group jumping; and composition books. All items can be dropped off at the Odyssey Day School office between 7AM - 6PM Monday - Friday, and your donations are greatly appreciated.

The students ran a small School Supply Drive for 2 weeks in March among just the Odyssey Families and collected 2 large boxes of school supplies which they will be delivering to the NuDay Syria Warehouse on May 6 and helping to pack a container for shipment to the Middle East that evening. They will also be presenting the NuDay Syria Founder and Director with a check for their Sister School of the monies they raised on March 28 when they partnered with Harrow's Chicken Pies to offer dinner to be picked up at school for Odyssey Families in order to raise money for the Sister School Project.

If you would like more information about either of these activities, or about the Sister School Project itself or the Community Service Club in general, please contact kimh@odysseydayschool.org or call Kim Holt at Odyssey at 781-245-6050. Odyssey is located at 2 Audubon Road in Wakefield. Flyers for both activities are available to anyone who would like them, simply ask.