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Home > Seattle Penny Harvesters lead by example!
June 30, 2009
 Penny Harvest students at Seattle's Hawthorne Elementary set off a spirited discussion online earlier this month after The Seattle Times reported that they had decided to use part of the Penny Harvest money they collected to help a disabled homeless man in their neighborhood.
Although most of Penny Harvest schools in Seattle donated their funds to local non-profit organizations, the students at Hawthorne Elementary chose a different course of action: helping a homeless man, DeBraer Brae get housing. Brae now has a wheelchair and temporary housing thanks to donations of spare change from students at Seattle's Hawthorne Elementary.
According to one blogger, "What I found amazing about these students is that, even with an extremely limited budget, they were able to make difference. And, all it really took was a little bit of working together to get things done. Those students are the type of role models which our nation's elected officials should be trying to emulate."
Read all about the students at Hawthorn Elementary by clicking here.
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