BRENHAM ELEMENTARY STUDENTS LEARN BY HELPING OTHERS

  

Brenham Elementary School has been having an active year, participating in many activities throughout the year, some included helping others by raising money for several different worthy causes.

Some of those activities included participating in the Veteran’s Day and Christmas programs, learning about core essential values, and Pennies for Patients.

BES Counselor Melanie Conway says that she “…..is amazed and humbled by the generous and compassionate spirit of our students. They ask daily if we ‘had cured cancer yet’, or ‘made leukemia disappear’. “They were sadden to learn that kids do really get cancer, and some really took it to heart.”

One of the students, Anthony Hessler, raised money on his own to help try and find a cure for Lymphoma. Not only did he put in money of his own, but solicited a larger donation from Dr. Bode’s office, and raised a total of $272.06, helping his class win the pizza party, with a total raised of $480.88.

Conway said she believed Anthony did it not to win the contest, but because he wanted to help others because he has seen what Lymphoma can do, and he didn’t think it was fair.

She says that after talking to his class about the options for their class party, one of the students stood up and told the class that they should donate the money for the party back to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society so they could help even more people.

The class ultimately voted on an ice cream party, but the entire school raised $3,080.22, which was well over their goal of $2,000.

Conway says she tells the students all the time that…”we need to celebrate the good things in the world to encourage more good things to happen, and we have so much “good” to celebrate here at BES.”