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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE :

THE GAP SCHOOL PROGRAM INITIATES CHANGE for CHANGE

The GAP School has announced a fund raising initiative ‘Project Change’ for the locally based national disaster relief organization ShelterBox USA. The US organization, headquartered in Bradenton, is affiliated with the international ShelterBox program, which originated in the UK.

‘ Project Change’ will involve GAP students in the collection of pocket change to promote positive social change in the lives of a family of disaster victims somewhere in the world who will become the fortunate recipients of the school-funded ShelterBox.

ShelterBox specializes in providing emergency accommodation and other survival essentials to natural and man-made disaster victims. Aid is delivered in pre-packaged kits – ‘ShelterBoxes’ – each designed to help a family of 10 survive for at least six months in a disaster’s aftermath. Each delivered Box costs $1000 and includes a large tent, cooking/eating tools and utensils, a one-burner cook stove, bedding, hand tools, water purification tablets/containers and kids’ activity kits. ShelterBox has distributed such equipment to over 500,000 people in 41 countries in its six year history via trained volunteer response teams to insure rapid distribution to the truly homeless.

The GAP School is a therapeutic intervention school that provides daily intensive educational, cognitive, developmental, and emotional training and support for students who need to refocus and reconnect with their learning potential. They also provide support, training, education and advocacy to currently enrolled GAP School families.

Over the years, The GAP School has provided therapeutic interventions to a wide variety of children, adolescents and teens. Treatable diagnoses included among the current 40 students include AD/HD, dyslexia, Asperger and/or autism, emotional handicaps and developmental sensory processing delays.
Two primary objectives in this school fund raiser are to instill a sense of social responsibility and individual student empowerment to initiate change. The children will concurrently study the Holocaust as they conduct Project Change. ShelterBox will erect one of their tents for the students as part of the kick-off assembly program on Friday, January 11th.

Contact: Amy F. Weinberger, 941-924-6373, thegapschool@gmail.com

"The GAP School does not discriminate in any way on the basis of race, religion,
or creed with respect to admissions, student privileges, facultyor scholarships."
The GAP School is a 501(c)(3) organization.
The GAP School is a McKay Scholarship participant in the state of Florida.

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