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St. Paul Parish School is committed to extending and enhancing its
educational program through service to the greater community.
 Christmas
Hospitality - our gym becomes home for approximately 40 homeless
people for 10 days at Christmas time. The students contribute food
and personal items and raise money for gifts for all our guest.
Many students work with their families and other parishioners in the
many volunteer positions required to make this happen each year.
Christmas Bags and Letters - each year students write letters,
design paper ornaments, and provide a small gift to prisoners in the
Lane County jail.
Food Baskets - during Catholic Schools week, students contribute
food items which are gathered and brought to one of the local service
organizations for distribution to needy families.
Project
Starfish - a Lenten project in which students and staff organize
events to raise money to sponsor families in Project Starfish, an
innovative concept of help/self-help in which a service organization
works with homeless families for one year and provides support,
counseling, education, etc. in return for volunteer hours. The
objective is to stabilize the lives of these families by being there for
a full year. In the last seven years St. Paul students have raised
a total of more than $56,000.00.
Can-a-Week
Program - families are asked to bring one can/box of food per week
to support the food pantry at St. Paul parish.
Cans
and Bottles Program - once a month families are asked to bring
deposit cans and bottles to be collected and redeemed to support the St.
Vincent de Paul prescription drug program.
Newspaper Collection - drop boxes are always available for the
collection of old newspapers which are gathered by the Eugene Mission
and sold for recycling.
30 Hour Famine - 8th graders and some adults fast once a year to
raise funds for the relief of world hunger.
The
Year-End Clean-Up - at year's end students and adults clean out
their desks and usable materials are given to the Relief Nursery and/or
St. Vincent de Paul. |
