Bulletin Students Bring Joy and Hope to Santa Fe Tis the season for giving, and with a Teen Action Program that sends students into roughly 40 agencies each week, we have many examples of our students' charitable work from which to draw. Math teacher Doug Lynam, left, with freshman Jacob Statnekov clean up after preparing a meal for the homeless at St. Elizabeth's Shelter. The following is a small holiday sampler of how Prep students brighten the horizon of this community. Students make grants to Santa Fe families made needy because of a child with cancer.
Students spend the year raising funds for the endowment and then decide whom to support.
The project has assisted many families in Santa Fe by helping to fund surgery or even paying a family's rent while the child is undergoing therapy. Habitat for Humanity Habitat for Humanity utilizes our student volunteers to build beautiful new homes for low-income Santa Fe families. Families must demonstrate a financial need, participate alongside the Habitat volunteers in the construction and have a guaranteed income sufficient to make principal mortgage payments. Given Santa Fe's inflated housing costs, Habitat is providing an invaluable service to these people. Six young Prep men and Gene Harrell, their faculty sponsor, currently work each Thursday afternoon at the Ephraim Street site, leveling walls, building fences, running electrical wiring and performing numerous other duties.