An annual event, the WDO Day of Service was launched in 2020 to honor SCSC founder Wendy Ormsby after her passing. (Credit: Jill Mohry)
In addition to the evening activities, the school’s 250 K-8 students planned to make blankets for local homeless shelters throughout the school day.
The Souderton Charter School Collaborative (SCSC) is honoring founder Wendy Ormsby with a WDO “Love our Earth” Day of Service event.
The event was planned for tonight, Wednesday, Jan. 22, during the school’s January Evening Collaboration Session with SCSC families, a monthly event including staff, students and parents. A number of community- and nature-minded activities were planned, from building bird feeds and pollinator seed balls to creating a kaleidoscope of butterflies for Generations of Indian Valley seniors to collecting books for the school’s recycled book fair to taking sustainability pledges.
Students work to assist local organizations, collecting food for the Bean Bag Program, which provides weekend meals to food insecure children, as well as recycling materials for the NexTrex Program, which uses recycled plastic film to make decks.
SCSC students help out at the Bean Ban Program, which provides weekend meals to food insecure children. (Credit: Jill Mohry)An annual event, the WDO Day of Service was launched in 2020 to honor SCSC founder Wendy Ormsby after her passing.
“We tie it into the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, so it’s a WDO Day of Service. Those were her initials,” said SCSC teacher Jill Mohry. “It ties in beautifully with Wendy and her beliefs — family and community partnerships and giving back to others, recognizing the needs that others have, knowing that you can help and you can make a difference.”
In addition to the evening activities, the school’s 250 K-8 students planned to make blankets for local homeless shelters throughout the school day. The blankets will include cards of encouragement from the students.
“Over 240 blankets will go out into the community to our homeless centers with notes of encouragement from kids grades K-8,” said Mohry. “It’s amazing.”
SCSC serve the community help out at Zion Mennonite Church’s Table of Plenty. (Credit: Jill Mohry)The WDO Day of Service is one SCSC’s many volunteer efforts. The school holds weekly off-campus volunteer events, in which one grade level helps out at local organizations and community centers. In addition, the younger grades complete in-house service projects, such as packing socks for needy individuals and making crafts for seniors, said Mohry.
“One of SCSC’s big components is family and community partnerships,” said Mohry. “One of our big goals is to get the kids out there and just to recognize how big the world is around them and what they can do to help others, even the littlest ones.”
As the school honors Ormsby, Mohry hopes the WDO Day of Service teaches students that anyone can make a difference.
“It doesn’t matter if you’re five, 15 or 45. Everybody can make a difference,” said Mohry. “And it doesn’t cost anything.”
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