ST. CLAIRSVILLE — The St. Clairsville Dawn Rotary helps to inventory the closets of native faculties with hygiene merchandise as a part of a group initiative.
The Rotary’s first cease was to St. Clairsville Excessive College, the place members donated round $150 value of things to the college’s Hygiene Closet on Friday. The closet helps provide college students in want with provides equivalent to toothpaste, shampoo, physique wash, deodorant, laundry detergent and female merchandise.
Alicia Jordan, president of the Dawn Rotary, stated members are working to gauge the wants of the remaining faculties in Belmont County. She stated the membership is at all times in search of methods to offer again to the group, which is what prompted this new challenge.
“One of many women in our membership, her church was truly doing a hygiene fundraiser for one of many native faculties so we thought how can we piggyback off of this and make it a little bit bit greater and that is what we got here up with,” she added.
Jordan stated the objective is to help each faculty within the county with their hygiene provides wants.
“We reached out to all the colleges locally so Bridgeport, Martins Ferry, Union Native, St. Clairsville. … We’re simply ready to get extra data from the opposite faculties,” she stated.
Jordan stated college students who’re in want of a product in St. Clairsville Excessive College can discreetly receive the objects from the college’s “hygiene closet.”
“College students can go to this closet and get the hygiene merchandise that they want with out anybody figuring out. It’s actually only a profit for the coed. … We’ve got discovered that there are numerous college students who don’t have entry to these objects, whether or not it could be that they don’t come from an excellent house or they’ll’t afford it. We don’t know the precise motive, however there are a whole lot of college students in want of those merchandise,” she stated.
Jordan stated Belmont Financial savings Financial institution and St. Clairsville Walmart donated towards the challenge, permitting Rotary members to buy the objects for the college.
“We offered toothpaste, shampoo, lotion, female merchandise, physique sprays, no matter we might consider, however nothing that would hurt the kid like razors. We went off of what the college urged to us,” she stated.
Jordan stated she hopes the objects will final the college for a while and that college students are in a position to obtain the merchandise they want.
“I hope they make the most of it,” she added.
Superintendent Walter Skaggs stated the district’s workers appreciates the help from the Rotary.
“We’re blessed with some very supportive organizations in our group who go above and past to ensure our college students, particularly these with wants equivalent to this, are met,” he stated.
Any faculty within the space that has an analogous program to the hygiene closet and would love some help is inspired to succeed in out to the Rotary by way of Fb.
“We might love to have the ability to assist as many faculties as we probably can, and as many college students,” Jordan stated.
