Yavneh fundraising drive for earthquake victims reaches £4k
Three-day appeal led by four sixthformers at school in Borehamwood following the devastation
The Yavneh Schools (college and primary) have raised just over £4,000 for the victims of the earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria.
Sixthform students Maya Aharon, Aimee Jayes, Mia Rose, Emily Sinclair and Dahlia Leaman reached out to the school asking for help in raising money for the charity, IsraAID, who are deploying emergency response teams following the earthquakes that have claimed the lives of thousands.
Alongside the schools informal Jewish education (IJE) department, the Yavneh primary Tzedakah Tzevet and amazing volunteers, the girls raised £4066.03 over three days, by selling tuck, holding a bake sale and pupil and parent donations.
Sarah Max, director of IJE and projects for the Yavneh schools, told Jewish News: “The sixth formers spent hours after school and their free time dedicated to this cause; collecting money at the school play, at lunch times and by the school gates at the end of the day at both Yavneh primary and Yavneh college.”
The sixth formers said: “We would never have imagined being able to raise as much money as we have. We are proud to be in a school whose students follow their school motto, Olam Chessed Yibaneh (a World built on kindness) and help us raise so much money in such a short period of time.”
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