A group of third-grade girls from Woodside Elementary School is raising money for Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders every weekend during November in front of Roberts Market on Woodside Road in Woodside.
Parent Terry Sculley says the girls have already raised more than $3,000 and have met people who volunteer with or regularly donate to the organization. The girls want their donations to go to IV kits for Africa and to pay for more relief workers to travel to West Africa, she said.
As a thank-you to donors, the girls are giving away squares of Divine Fair Trade chocolate.
Ms. Sculley said one of the donors the girls met recently was Dr. James McCarrick, a Redwood City doctor who will go to Africa for Doctors Without Borders in 2015. Dr. McCarrick told the girls, she said, that the recipients of care from the organization are so grateful for their unbiased help that even in war-torn regions the volunteers are safe.
The girls have been meeting as a group since they were in first grade, Ms. Sculley says, and hope to continue through their eighth-grade year at Woodside Elementary.
They meet once a month to work on projects and focus on a specific topic each month. November was dedicated to learning about medical careers and volunteerism. In December they will carol at the Sequoias, and in January they will kayak in Elkhorn Slough.
Donations to the Woodside School Third Grade Girls Group for the project may be made with checks payable to MSF/Doctors Without Borders. Mail them to: C/O Woodside Girls Group/Terry Sculley, 2995 Woodside Road, Suite 400, Woodside, CA 94062.
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