Cards for Roswell Project Has Personal Meaning for Organizer

Sharing words of inspiration and care with patients at Roswell Park Cancer Institute has special meaning for Hannah Kate McFadden, a junior, who is taking Civics in Action where students are developing Do Good projects each month as part of the class.

She has been involved in two holiday themed card making activity centers in the library where a table in the high school library was turned into a crafting table for students to create hand-drawn cards for patients at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Students were able to come into the library and make a card using stamps, markers and crayons. There were suggested messages to write in case anyone had writer's block.

There was a Thanksgiving session in the fall and a Valentine's Day session in February. The Valentine's Day card making activity was hosted by our YAC Unified Club, along with help from Hannah. The YAC club always hosts a Valentine card activity for the building, and they asked her to team up for this one!

In the fall, the project was organized by Hannah has a personal connection and interest in the project because in November her mom was hospitalized in Roswell.

She got the word out at school through morning announcements, the Tiger Times online newsletter and signs and posters throughout the building. She plans to take the cards to the hospital where staff will distribute them to patients.