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*Please donate a gift to the Holiday Gift Giving benefitting the Rosemount
Center and Martha's Table, NOW through Dec. 9**
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It has been a slow start to our annual Holiday Gift Giving ... our
collection boxes are empty and waiting to be filled!! Please help make
this time honored SFS tradition a success by donating a gift to benefit a
child, age infant through 18 years. Donated gifts will be delivered to our
long-term partners, Martha's Table and the Rosemount Center for these
organizations to distribute to their respective communities in time for the
holidays.


GIFT SUGGESTIONS:
Gifts must be* new or never used before*. No gently used items will be
accepted.
Gifts may include books, board games, Leggos, African American and Latina
dolls, crafts kits.
Gift cards help with shopping for teens. Suggested stores for gift cards
are Target and Old Navy (shops in walking/ metro distance of recipients).
Diapers and baby wipes
PLEASE NO action figures that carry weapons.

HOW IT WORKS:

- Place the gift/s in a large bag. Please do not wrap but include the
wrapping paper. Gift cards may be dropped off with David Connell, Room 222.
- Drop-off sites : collection boxes outside the Principal's Office and
the Dean of Student's Office; David Connell's office; and under the Holiday
Tree in the Lower Level of the Library.
- *Collection through Friday, December 9.*

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OUR PARTNERS:
Rosemount Center - Located in Mount Pleasant, Rosemount provides a range of
services, day care, bilingual instruction, home visits, physical and
occupational therapy. SFS Upper School students partner with the Rosemount
Center by providing support in the classrooms at this bilingual daycare
center that primarily serves children of recent immigrants to this country.

Martha's Table - Your participation in Holiday Gift Giving supports
families that participate in Martha's Table Children Youth and Family
Learning Programs. The program serves hundreds of children from the 14th
street corridor and surrounding neighborhoods in D.C. For many years, all
divisions of our school have been involved in the work of Martha's Table.


*Volunteer drivers are needed *to deliver the gifts to the organizations
when the collection is over. Please contact June Das Gupta,
junedasgupta@msn.comif you would like to volunteer as a driver, or if you
have any questions about this event