The Buffalo Children's Society

Branford High School Students Help Support Arts and the Lakota Culture

During the months of March and April

The Class Act Gallery and Cafe will be featuring artwork created by Lakota youth who are living on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.  These young people are very talented artists who benefit greatly from the Buffalo Children's Society Program.  The programs and plans have been developed by the adults and youth to meet a serious need.  They provide opportunities and activities that are of interest to the youth and give them exciting and positive alternatives to involvement in self-destructive activities. The community hopes to make the program self-sustaining by selling the artwork created by these young Lakota artists.  The survival of this beneficial art program depends upon the sale of the work.  Mrs. Monks' Graphic Design Students have been working on organizating this exhibit and designing advertisement flyers to help support the sales and their artwork.

Below is an example of a students artwork

For more information about the Buffalo Children's Society, please visit:

http://nativeprogress.org/content/view/46/106/

Young Super Heroes

The Sliney Super Heroes Program (SSH) designed and constructed a Pillow Pal, a plush, huggable pillow with a unique face.  The children stuffed them with velvet hearts and attached a card and named each one.  The stuffed pals were given to the fire and police departments for children involved in tragedies, to the local hospice and to those involved in emergency situations. March 20th, 2008

Children from Tisko after-school child care center, collected dog and cat food, along with animal toys, for the Daniel Cosgrove Animal Shelter in Branford. The children presented the boys to the Branford animal shelter on January 31, 2008.

Doing Her Part                  

On Sunday, Oct. 7, Luparia had 29 people volunteered their time and energy to help clean up the Trolley Trail in Stony Creek,. In 2.5 hours they collected 520 pounds of garbage and only made a dent, according to Luparia.

According to Luparia, Save the Sound, the Ocean Consevancy,and Surf Rider Foundation have been great resources of information.

Story courtesy of The Sound Newspaper, article entitled "Doing Her Part" by Ben Raynor and Lauren Luparia

A Kid Who Cares                       

Nicholas and his classmates at Murphy Elementary helped organize a clothing drive to aid the students of  New Haven elementary school that delivered more than 900 items.  Nicholas was inspired to undertake the porject after hearing stories of need from his grandmother, Gina, a first grade teacher in New Haven's public school system.

To volunteer for the next clothing drive, email Dawn Eisensmith at dawneisensmith@sbcglobal.net

Reading and Feeding                    

Sharon (8 years old) embarked on a a quest to help feed hungry families around the world and read a few good books at the same time.  After reading the book Betrice's Goat, Sharon Joined a program fun by Heifer international called Read To Feed.  The Read to Feed program is an effort to promote literacy as well as awareness and solutions for poverty and hunger around theh glove by gifts of livestock.

For more information bout Heifer International  and its programs, visit www.heifer.org.  For more about the Read to Feed program, visit www.readtofeed.org or call 1 800 442-0474

Asian Club Makes Large Donation!

Members of the Asian Club at Branford High School decided to find children someplace in the world who might benefit froma large donation of $500.00. AFter one month of research they chose teh CATALYST Foundation which has special projects around the world.  The particular donation will go to help build a school in improverished area near Ho Chi Minh, formerly Saigon, Vietnam.  The children and theire families live in a garbage dump in makeshift homes that surround the area.

Club President, Natschja Ratanaprayal reminds all BHS students that the club takes in new members at any time.

BHS Interact Club sold paper sneakers to BHS students and the faculty in order to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundatioin. Club members had a great time collecting donations for a very worthwhiloe cause and were touched by the generosity of many of theier peers.

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