Good deeds by students that promote and strengthen the community
The Environmental and Charity Week of the Skarðshlíðarskóli secondary school concluded on 8th April with a charity market, where students sold new and upcycled clothing, jewellery from recycled materials, purses made from plastic packaging, books and rice pouches. The students presented the Bereavement Centre with 40 rice pouches to support this important organisation, which is based at the St. Jó Life Quality Centre in Hafnarfjörður.
Redesign, reuse and grit pads
Teenage Section's Environment and Charity Week Skarðshlíð School finished
8th April with a charity market where students sold new and redesigned
Clothes, jewellery from recycled material, wallets from plastic packaging, books and rice pouches. The students handed over The Bereavement Centre forty rice pudding to support these important organisations based in
St. Jó's Centre for Wellbeing in Hafnarfjörður.
The students were, as expected, pleased with the charity market and their gift to the community. Congratulations on your contribution to important community work, dear students.
A grant supporting and strengthening work for refugee children from Ukraine
The students decided that the proceeds of the charity market, kr. 132,730, would go to refugee children from Ukraine who have
have come to Iceland in recent weeks and months. On 19 May, pupils of Skarðshlíðarskóli presented Markus Má Efraím, who is in charge of the children's club from
Ukraine in Reykjavik, 4 Instax cameras and 700 films. The cameras
will be put to use in a summer job with the children who attend the youth club. The group is
Very grateful for a grant from Ljósmyndavörum ehf., who gave a generous
discount on the machines.