Moorestown FEP Celebrates 20th Anniversary This Year

MOORESTOWN, NJ — FEP, the Friends Enrichment Program of Moorestown Meeting, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.

Created in the spring of 1997, it has since issued enrichment scholarships to 390 underserved, financially disadvantaged Moorestown children, including many who received scholarships year after year. To date, scholarship costs totaled $209, 960, the FEP said in a release on Tuesday.

At no cost to their parents, FEP kids attend overnight or day camp for periods extending from between one and five weeks. They may also enroll in sports clinics or art classes, or take music lessons, or engage in other age-appropriate life-enhancing activities.

FEP also maintains a school-year program of Sunday afternoon program activities. Run by volunteers, this program is open to all FEP scholarship recipients and other school-age young people regardless of their parents’ income. Participating children mingle socially in a safe environment and engage in various activities.
On Sunday, Jan. 22, FEP children learned about plants and their vital importance to the community. The children were shown a few plants with interesting characteristics, and were taught how to grow new plants from cuttings of existing plants.

They were shown young lemon plants that grew from seeds planted two months ago. As a follow-up, they planted lemon seeds in small individual pots. It will be their responsibility to water their seeds and the plants that will grow from them.

The plant lesson is part of FEP’s focus for 2017, which centers on the Earth’s environment and the human beings that are an integral part of the that environment.

To help protect the environment they love, FEP children will write to Congressman Tom MacArthur (R-3), urging him to support and promote legislative measures aimed at limiting the impact of climate change.

The children will be encouraged to produce accompanying artwork. The letter-writing project commences on Sunday, January 29.

At the same session, FEP will also begin planning for its annual Music and Dance Medley, a young people’s springtime performance for the benefit of the FEP scholarship fund. Celebrating Diversity is the theme for this year’s medley.

FEP meets every Sunday afternoon, from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Moorestown Friends Meetinghouse, on the grounds of Moorestown Friends School. The address is 118 East Main Street.

For more information, call FEP chairperson Monique Begg at 856-235-3963.

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