Caring 5th Grade North Chatham School Class helps CARE animals with Service Learning Project
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For Immediate Release:

Chatham Animal Rescue and Education, Inc.
Contact: Karen Sirls
karens@chathamanimalrescue.org
919-542-5757

Sue Yencha's 5th grade class at North Chatham School in Chapel Hill created an extremely successful service learning project that yielded nearly 600 pounds of food for cats and dogs of Chatham Animal Rescue and Education (CARE) awaiting their forever homes. The students were eager to collect supplies for animals waiting to be adopted and wanted to learn more about how CARE volunteers further their mission in the community as well as what supplies CARE's dogs and cats needed.

Friday, December 11th, Frances Haman, a long time volunteer CARE foster caregiver, and her adopted CARE dog, Rastus, met the enthusiastic students in Ms. Yencha's 5th grade. The students were enthralled with the educational information Frances provided and loved the fact she brought her well mannered dog with her. The eager learners prepared questions in advance covering the spectrum from rescue work; to animal care and preventing overpopulation which Frances answered drawing on her years of experience saving the lives of numerous animals in Chatham County.

The 5th graders wanted to make a significant impact with their 5th grade project. They developed creative techniques to let everyone at North Chatham school know about their exciting project and the meaningful work CARE does in the community. The class made large posters which they carried outside daily and displayed where car-riders meet their transportation home. Each afternoon, they stood along the car-riders after school to advertise and collect donations. They went even further by dressing up in a Scooby-Doo costume in an effort to draw extra attention (and extra donations) to the needy animals of CARE.

Ms. Yencha proudly commented, "I am amazed at how much the families of North Chatham have donated. My students have been graphing how many pounds we have collected and they tell me that we are near 600 pounds. The kids have really enjoyed this service learning project."

CARE was thrilled to participate and deliver an educational outreach message to the younger members of the community. The selfless act of Ms. Yencha's 5th grade class has uplifted the volunteers of CARE.

Ms. Yencha is delivered the donations to CARE volunteer foster caregiver, Laura Miller, on Friday, December18th at 4:30 PM at Central Carolina Community College in Pittsboro. The cats and dogs of CARE are purring and wagging their tails with excitement!

Chatham Animal Rescue and Education, Inc. is a not-for-profit animal rescue that has been saving the lives of Chatham County cats and dogs for over 30 years. All CARE animals are fostered in volunteer foster homes. CARE pays for food and routine medical expenses such as spay or neuter, rabies vaccinations, deworming and vaccinations. Adoption fees cover the very basic medical expenses of animals, but they do not cover additional treatments that some animals require. Donations can be mailed to CARE, PO Box 610, Pittsboro, NC 27312.