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Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí students and Philip Lyons of Novas with some of the shoeboxes students collected for Arlington Lodge. Photo by Dermot Crean
STUDENTS at Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí showed their generosity just before Christmas with a shoebox collection for a homeless shelter.
Elma O’Sullivan’s Transitiion Year class co-ordinated with the whole school to put together shoeboxes and fundraise for Arlington Lodge.
“We felt it was a very worthy cause especially at Christmas time and we’ve endeavoured to help them with this appeal over the past number of years,” said Elma.
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“Homelessness is such a problem in this country and the students made a huge drive with this initiative and we brought food to the shelter earlier this week,” she continued.
Students and staff created around 100 shoeboxes which contained a present and essential toiletries, clothing and more. Philip Lyons of Novas called to the school to collect the shoeboxes on Friday morning.
