Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Students' Martin Luther King Day Efforts Help Cradles to Crayons Achieve its Largest-Ever Collection Event -

Seventh-grade students at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy pose for a team photo after completing their Martin Luther King Day service project, one of a range of activities participated in by students and faculty in all divisions of the school this past Monday.

The group collected needed items – new and nearly new infants’ and children’s clothing, warm coats, hats, shoes, boots, gloves, newborn baby items, baby safety equipment, toys, books and school supplies – prior to Martin Luther King Day, and sorted and bagged the items at the school in preparation for their delivery to Cradles to Crayons, the local nonprofit that maintains a year-round program to provide essential items, free of charge, to the region's low-income and/or homeless children.

Top row, left to right: Chyna Roger, Catherine Cooney, Erin Macmahon, Izzy Adamson, Maya Trujillo, Maggie Stutman, and Mei Rose Connor. Bottom Row: Shannon Karoly, Grace Yang, Lilly Soroko, Sophie Plotkin and Savannah Bell.

The collection, earmarked for distribution to children, birth to age 12, living in poverty in the five-county southeastern Pennsylvania area, was part of the largest region-wide product collection in Cradles to Crayons (www.cradlestocrayons.org) history.