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Invisible Children: A New Community Service Club at KentBy Sophie Gegeshidze '15, Staff Writer |
Invisible Children, a nationwide organization with a new branch just opened at Kent School, is a community service group that travels all around the United States, visiting schools and collecting money, books, video games, postcards and movies for kids influenced by war.
The group, led by Carlos Adan, came to Kent School on the 29th of September. Adan presented an overview of the organization during Thursday chapel service, and a collection was taken up the following Sunday. After the Thursday service they showed Kent students a free movie, which informed the community about how children live in North Guinea, which is currently engaged in war, and how a group of people from Invisible Children travel from house to house to cheer up children and have fun with them.
Now Kent School has its own Invisible Children Club, run by Presidents Weiwen Peng '12 and Eunice Park '13. Peng said: "It is great to have this kind of club in Kent School. It makes students understand how children their own age feel being influenced by the war. We should help them as much as we can."
As part of their efforts, the group took part in a project to sell tea and coffee sets made by Art Survey students over the past few years to raise money for the Make a Wish Foundation and Invisible Children. The sale took place over Parents Weekend and raised $905 – quite a success for one of the group's first efforts!
