Learners from SCVi Charter School in Santa Clarita collected donations this week for two local families with children who lost their homes in the October brush fires.

Community members were asked to bring new clothing and gift cards to the school’s Veterans Day Flag Ceremony for donation on Tuesday, according to Sara McDaniels of SCVi/iLEAD.

“We are connecting with two different families that are in need,” she said. “One that has a 6-year-old and an 8-year-old daughter, and they lost everything. They’re not an SCVi or iLEAD family, but when our learners heard about that and thought about what their lives would be like, they wanted to do something.”

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The second family learners collected donations for have a teenage son, whose home also burned down in the fires. 

“That’s just so devastating,” said Matt Watson of SCVi/iLEAD. “So many of our local families have been affected by the fires. We want to take care of families of our learners at our schools and families of folks that don’t go to our school.” 

While collecting donations for these two families may not be academic, some life skills this type of project teaches learners include how to help and support others in need, being an integral member of the community and learning how to lead, according to Watson.

“This speaks to how much our learners really want to be a part of the world that they live in,” McDaniels said. “It may not be a state standard that they’re learning, … but they’re learning a lot about the community and how to help people, and how they’re part of a larger world by providing this service and doing the work that they’re doing to collect these donations.” 

Ed. Note: This article is a KHTS Community Spotlight based on a recent radio show with SCVi/iLead Charter School in Santa Clarita. 

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