This year’s Lenten Project is Almsgiving to support The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Student Series’ Pennies for Patients. While schools and students collect money to help find cures for blood cancer patients, students learn about service, leadership and philanthropy.
Your child will help save lives. By collecting change, students will help people touched by blood cancers. In the 1960s the survival rate for the most common form of childhood leukemia was 3%. Today it’s approximately 90% thanks to many research advances funded by LLS. With the help of programs like this one, LLS has invested more than $1 billion in research to advance therapies that save lives.
Your child will receive his/her own coin box for collecting change, dollars and checks (made out to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society) on Monday, March 18th. Spare change can turn up anywhere and your child can make a difference just by collecting it.
Our program begins on Monday, March 18th and runs for the next three weeks, ending on April 5, 2019.
Collection boxes are to be kept at home until the end of the program.
Students return their collection boxes to their homeroom teacher on April 8, 2019.
Please note that we are not participating in LLS’ online program this year, but we will have a special day each week with a specific goal.
Thank you for supporting this project.
