Newtown Friends School Kids and Newtown Meeting Quaker Kids at Simple Supper.
Annual 'Simple Supper' benefits local food banks
Newtown Quaker Meeting kids and student volunteers from Newtown Friends School recently raised a whopping $5,420 for two charities by hosting a Simple Supper for voluntary contributions at the Newtown Quaker Meetinghouse.
For their Simple Supper, some children at the Newtown Quaker Meeting children’s meeting for business suggested raising funds for a group their mom had told them about– Bucks Food for Friends (BFF). Others at the meeting wanted to continue contributing funds to Right Sharing of World’s Resources (RSWR) which they had supported in other years. So, they decided to support both groups.
They would give Bucks Food for Friends the first $2,000 they raised and give Right Sharing of World Resources the rest. The total of $5,420 they raised was a new record for the Quaker Kids Simple Supper fund-raiser.
Bucks Food For Friends was started in 2008 by a group of Quakers to provide monthly home-style dinners in a warm, respectful atmosphere to those in need in the Lower Bucks County area. Since then, volunteers at Bucks Food For Friends have served 50-60 meals on the third Monday of each month at the Fallsington Friends Meetinghouse. They have now served over 10,000 meals in the past 17 years.
Right Sharing of World Resources is a Quaker organization based in Richmond, Indiana which makes micro loans to groups of impoverished women in India, Kenya, Sierra Leone,and Guatemala, Last year the Newtown Quaker Meeting young people helped a group of women in India start small businesses in broiler chicken sales, vegetable sales, grocery shops, milk products, and fish sales with an average loan to each of them for 10,000 Rupees (Rs) ($120.27).
Joining the Newtown Quaker Meeting children in organizing and serving the Simple Supper this year were volunteer students from Newtown Friends School, the outstanding Pre-K to 8 school on the George School campus in Newtown.
The head of the Newtown Quaker Meeting Children’s Education Committee, former teacher Nancy Martin, said “We never thought that we would receive as much in contributions as $5,420! I want to give a special thanks to the volunteers from Newtown Friends School who helped us out. Our kids are thrilled and can’t wait to do it again next year.”
Newtown Quaker Meeting, co-founded in 1815 by Quaker minister and artist, Edward Hicks, is open to the public, with Sunday School classes for children and adults at 9:45 a.m. and worship based on expectant silence “after the manner of Friends” at 11 a.m. Childcare is provided.
