The Acción Puertorriqueña y Amigos — a Latin-American based cultural student organization — is selling candy-filled Halloween gift bags called "Boo-Grams" throughout the week to fundraise for the Teach for America program at the Max Schoenfeld School in the Bronx, N.Y.
The goodie bags — sold in the Frist Campus Center from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day this week — will be delivered to anyone on campus for $2. The profits go directly to help purchase school supplies.
The Max Schoenfeld School has approximately 1,800 students, ranging from Kindergarten through fifth grade, but only one security officer and a limited number of teachers. The school lost $300,000 in funding this year, according to an email from University and Acción alumna Ariadna Phillips '03, who currently teaches at the school through Teach for America.
The school lacks the basic classroom supplies including glue, chalk, lined paper, textbooks, notebooks, and tissues, Phillips said in an email to Acción. Many of the students are homeless or have lived in dangerous or abusive conditions in which they are exposed to violence, profanity and low expectations, she said.
Acción wanted to expand its social presence on campus and to increase its community service efforts, said Mariaelena Morales '05, Acción Alumni Liaison and Boo-Grams Chair. Phillips' cause at the Schoenfeld School seemed the perfect opportunity.
"They have a lot of homeless kids and kids that don't have enough for supplies, so we're at least trying to give them something, things that we take for granted," Morales said. Yesterday marked the first day of the "Boo-Grams" sale.
"We did have a great first day, which we really credit to the campus' willingness to participate, and also just to publicity, especially word of mouth," Morales said. "We sold a hundred bags today, which put us right on schedule for our 500-bag goal [for the week]. We're expecting more and more people everyday, so hopefully we'll go beyond our expectations."
If 500 bags are sold, Morales said, the group will raise $750 in profits.
"I think, especially because we are on a college campus, what really impresses most people is hearing that the school has no funding, that they are understaffed, and most importantly that some of the kids are even homeless, so they just need anything we can give them," Morales said.
"The fact that such wonderful, young kids are suffering like this really made people just come out and give today. That to me is as impacting as selling such a high number of bags on the first day," she said.
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