L'école Hillcrest d'Estevan Saskatchewan choisit FundScrip afin d'amasser des fonds pour une nouvelle aire de jeux
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Estevan Mercury, un journal de Sasketchewan, a récemment parlé de l'histoire de l'école Hillcrest, un groupe de FundScrip.
Hillcrest School is looking to create a bigger playground for its students and people living in the neighbourhood, and is running a fundraiser to help achieve that goal.
“Our Grade 5 to 8 playground is basically just a big open field with a basketball court, and that’s about it,” said community education liaison Sara Pippus. “We want to change the face of that, for kids to play out there. We found that without something to do at recess, kids don’t enjoy recess time that much.”
Although specific designs and layout for the new playground are still in planning stages, it will be designed with the purpose in mind of creating a gathering place, with imaginative play spaces to encourage free play and learning among the students who use it. The playground would also serve as a central meeting place for people living in the surrounding neighbourhood.
“We’re going to incorporate more places to meet, and picnic tables and things like that,” said Pippus. “Hopefully, over the next few years, we’ll be able to develop that playground into what we’d like it to be.”
In order to raise the necessary funds to make the new playground a reality, Hillcrest School has partnered with FundScrip, selling gift cards that can be used at local businesses like cash. With each purchase of a gift card, the company gives the school’s fundraiser a donation. So far, the school has raised a quarter of the funds necessary for the playground.
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