A R O U N D C A M P U S
Visits to Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center
Sixth Grade volunteers in the Headmaster’s Community Club make regular after school visits to Cardinal Cooke Health
Care Center, where they engage in conversation and activities with the residents. This is an entirely voluntary club, which
takes place after school hours and entails several visits to Cooke so that the boys are able to build connections and become
more comfortable with the elderly residents, several of whom face challenges.
Ethiopia School
Since the school’s 60th Anniversary year in 2011, Saint David’s Eighth Grade boys have led several school-wide fundraising
projects to build the Saint David’s Kalina School in Ethiopia. Each year, the boys worked hard organizing, running, and
participating in several activities, which included walk-a-thons, ice cream sales, pay-to-play soccer games, and quiz shows.
Last year, the Class of 2018 closed out work on Saint David’s Kalina School: it is a completely operational pre-primary
through Grade Eight school, and funds raised are now supporting work on a new school under construction in Ala’sa, through
Saint David’s partnership with Save the Children. The Class of 2019 will focus their fundraising efforts on the Ala’sa School.
This project involves construction of a two-room block addition to the current school there, which, when completed, will
serve 188 boys and girls in Grades Five and Six. Without the addition, the children would need to travel five miles by foot to
attend the next nearest school.
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