VAILS GATE – The Vails Gate STEAM Academy is going full STEAM ahead by supporting an anti-bullying initiative called The Be-A-Friend Project. Spearheaded in the school by teaching assistant Kattya Fernandez, The Be-A-Friend-Project is an initiative that offers encouraging and loving letters to kids that have been victims of bullying.
“This project is very important to me because I was bullied as a child,” Fernandez shared. Every month a child is selected and that’s where Vails Gate STEAM students come in with words of support. Students will write a letter/card, draw a picture or make artwork to support the child who has been bullied. The letters will then be mailed to the See The Wish/Be-A-Friend Project in Cold Spring, NY.
Fernandez shared that she hopes this will go district-wide in the future and welcomes letters from other Newburgh Enlarged City School District schools to be included in the mailing. For more information, contact Fernandez at the school 563-7900 or visit www.seethewish.com.
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