Stephanie Crispinelli Fund Seeking School Supply Donations
The Stephanie Crispinelli Humanitarian Fund is collecting school supplies to sent to Jamaica for the second Stephanie’s Place School to be built in May.
Last year the Somers community donated more than 2,400 pounds of school supplies and books to the first school that was built in Stephanie Crispinelli’s honor in Jamaica.
Stephanie Crispinelli was a Somers resident whose life was tragically cut short by the Haiti Earthquake on Jan. 12 of last year. She was 19 years old and was traveling on the “Journey of Hope” mission with two professors and 11 classmates from Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida. Crispinelli was a sophomore majoring in human services.
Her family created the Stephanie Crispinelli Humanitarian Fund in partnership with the Westchester Community Foundation as way to help the less fortunate.
The fund paid to construct an elementary school in a poverty-stricken Jamaican town twice visited by Stephanie on humanitarian trips and is now helping to pay for the building of a second school in her honor.
Collection bins will be accepting donations at Primrose Elementary School, Somers Intermediate School and the Somers Library until April 15. The supplies will be for children ages 4-12. Suggested supplies include: crayons, pencils, markers, notebooks, construction paper and educational tools. Books are currently being accepted.
Monetary donations to contribute towards the shipping cost can be made by visiting www.stephaniesmission.org or by calling Maria Caltabellotta at 914-299-4726.
Donations are 100% tax deductible. All funds raised will be used to continue Stephanie’s passion or helping the poor by supporting non-profit, U.S.-based charities.
The Stephanie Crispinelli Humanitarian Fund also provides scholarships for students to participate in humanitarian missions and sponsors Stephanie’s Caring Bears to children suffering injury or trauma.
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