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Community Service Through
a Friends education, our students learn to develop and appreciate
their potential as individuals within the context of a caring
community. From Lower School to Middle School, FSMH students
are active participants in the larger community through community
service.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed
citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing
that ever has.”
--Margaret Mead
Some of our recent community service projects are highlighted
here:
Bags for Foster Kids
 Two
Middle School students initiated a service project to help
children who are being shuffled from home to home by DYFS
(Division of Youth and Family Services). With the help of
the Middle School Service Club they collected over 200 new
or “gently” used duffle bags and baby diaper bags
for foster children who have nothing to transport their belongings
in except plastic trash bags. These contributions went to
local children in the Sewell and West Deptford communities.
Kids In Kenya Project
 An
ongoing project, shoes and school supplies are collected for
the “Kids in Kenya” project to benefit the Compass
Primary School in Kikuyu, Kenya. This service project began
through the direct contact of former Friends School parent,
Nancy Cimprich, who was involved with a church group who went
to Kenya to build a building that would serve as a community
and education center near Kikuyu.
Students, Teacher Peter, our Community Service Club advisor,
and Nancy Cimprich are pictured with collected shoes and supplies.
Project Ports
Oysters may soon become much more familiar to the Friends
School Mullica Hill community as we have been invited to become
a Project PORTS Partner School.
 Project
PORTS is a community-based restoration and educational program
focusing on the importance of oysters in the Delaware Bay
ecosystem. Project PORTS is sponsored by the Haskin Shellfish
Research Laboratory at Rutgers University. The goal of Project
PORTS is to restore oyster habitats and to increase awareness
and understanding of the oyster as a keystone species and
an important natural resource of the Bay, while at the same
time promoting a basic understanding of key scientific concepts
and stewardship values.
 Here
students are filling net bags with clam shells which will
be placed in conservation areas to help with the restoration
of oyster beds in the Delaware Bay.
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