Conyers Middle School's Program Challenge and Service Learning Classes will be collecting items for health kits now through March that will be sent to victims of the earthquake in Haiti. The first shipment of kits will be sent on Feb. 15.
Students and teachers will be collecting the items below:
KIT CONTENTS
1 gallon-size Ziploc plastic bag
1 hand towel (15" x 25" up to 17" x 27", no kitchen towels)
1 washcloth
1 comb (large and sturdy, not pocket-sized)
1 nail file or fingernail clippers (no emery boards or toenail clippers)
1 bath-size bar of soap (3 oz. and up)
1 toothbrush (single brushes only in original wrapper, no child-size brushes)
6 adhesive plastic strip sterile bandages
At this time, these are the only items being collected. At a later date, they will collect clothes and shoes to send.
All items must be new. You can donate the entire kit in the Ziploc bag or you can bring in individual items.
Donations can be dropped off at the Parent Center upon entering CMS, located at 400 Sigman Road, Conyers, 30012. For more information, call (770) 483-3371
Glenn’s BBQ is going to serve as an additional drop off location for donations to be added to the schools’ efforts.
Other Rockdale Schools are collecting the items below:
Rockdale County High School — clothes and canned goods through mid Feb.
Memorial Middle School — collecting money for Red Cross
Edwards Middle School — canned goods and pennies
J.H. House Elementary School — canned food and clothes
Davis Middle School — collecting donations
Sims Elementary — medical supplies and money
Alpha Academy — money to Red Cross through next Friday
Flat Shoals Elementary — non-perishables, toiletries, and clothing this week and next week
