FARMINGTON – Six Thanksgiving dinners will go to W.G. Mallett School families thanks to University of Maine at Farmington student members of Alpha Lambda Delta.
On Monday UMF students Katrina Teixeira and Leah Boucher delivered six boxes filled with Thanksgiving dinner fixings that include a big turkey.
The students of the National Honors Society organization donated the food items and worked on campus to raise funding for the turkey purchases.
Major donations for the turkeys came from UMF’s Bustin’ with Beavers dance team and the Merrill Center Student Services.
“Our goal is to give back to the community as much as we can,” said Teixeira, a junior elementary education major from Grafton, Mass. Boucher, of Carmel, is a sophomore and also an elementary education major at UMF.
Principal Tracy Williams was asked by Teixeira and Boucher, who are student-teachers at the pre-kindergarten through second-grade elementary school if they could donate food baskets to families of Mallett students. Williams then put together a confidential list and asked each family if they would be interested in receiving a basket.
The students have been working for the past weeks to gather donations as a giving project for this semester. Next semester the group is planning on a shoe/accessory drive.
“It’s nice to help out,” Boucher said.
Great job! United Way is looking forward to working with this great UMF group during the spring semester. Thank you for all you do.
Great job so proud of you Katrina!!