Haverford School Lower School students honor memory of Martin Luther King Jr.

Haverford School Lower School students and their families celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of working together as a community to support each other by coming to school on Jan. 16 to participate in a morning of service projects, led by the Upper School Student Service Board, to benefit local agencies and soldiers serving overseas.

The day began with a performance by the second-grade choral group, Coro Primo, followed by a morning filled with hands-on service projects.

Service projects included assembling care packages and snack bags for Project HOME; coloring flags for U.S. troops serving in the military; decorating placemats for children in the Pediatric Cancer Center at CHOP; sorting items from a clothing drive for Our Closet, Project HOME, and The Life Center of Eastern Delaware County; and creating hanging seed feeders for Sharpe Park’s Bird Sanctuary and The Haverford School Learning Garden.

Additionally, the students collected gently used books to be distributed to low-income, inner-city Philadelphia schools. Dinners were packaged for PALM (Positive Aging in Lower Merion) and proceeds from the Snack Shack benefitted Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Pediatric Cancer.