The students at S&S Elementary School pooled their pennies and raised a $10,000 donation for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
The Pennies for Patients contest ran from April 22 to May 3. In just two short weeks, the school was able to raise a significant amount of money. Grade level classes with the highest totals were as follows:
Pre-K - Mrs. McDonald’s class with $134.67
Kindergarten - Mrs. Morgan’s class with $499.26
1st Grade - Ms. Griffin’s class with $1,061.78
2nd Grade - Mrs. Hilliard’s class with $1,938.29 (overall campus winner)
3rd Grade - Mrs. Champion’s class with $409.26
4th Grade - Mrs. Carden’s class with $1,211.78
The staff at St. Jude Research Hospital believes that every child deserves a chance to live their best life. They are dedicated to treating children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases while ensuring that families never receive a bill for treatment, travel, housing or food. Through cutting-edge research and state-of-the-art treatment, St. Jude Research Hospital aims to advance cures for and increase the prevention of pediatric catastrophic diseases.
Through their work, they have been able to push pediatric cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80% in the United States. Visit stjude.org to learn more about this organization.