Thirty-eight students from Millikan High School's Compass program enjoyed a visit with the preschool children of the Comprehensive Child Development (CCD) Child Development Center at the Village at Cabrillo. It was the young children's opportunity to thank Mary Massich's economic class members. The class had adopted this CCD center as a project to learn about the needs of a charity organization, where their money comes from and how they get donated support. The students gathered many boxes of donated food and baby items as well as cash donations at the high school. They studied about this nonprofit agency, developed displays and planned an Open House event for the public to attend in January. The students were bright, well spoken and are definitely the leaders of tomorrow. The field trip on April 1st brought the class to meet the children whose lives their efforts have touched. The children broke a piñata, which showered the ground with handmade "thank you" notes made by the preschool children, who gathered them up and ran to give one to each student. No one on the playground left with his or her heart untouched.
For more information about CCD, go to www.ccdlb.org.
Submitted by Louise Cunningham
Development Director
Development Director
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