Habitat Sarasota Homeowners Receive Back to School Kindness
Pine View Student Stevie Peacock And “Project Kindness”.
For the last five of years Stevie Peacock, a student at Pine View School, has provided Back to School supplies through her program called “Project Kindness” to Habitat homeowner’s school age children. This year supplies were distributed to the families on August 11th from a Habitat rehab home in Jordan’s Crossing.
ABOUT STEVIE
Stevie Peacock helps needy families through an organization that she founded 5 years ago called Project Kindness. Stevie holds annual “Back to School Rallies” and school supply drives for the Habitat for Humanity neighborhood of Jordan’s Crossing.
Her support for Habitat came from a Pine View School Project in 2007. The senior class built a house and she met the Habitat volunteer coordinator during this time. Stevie has also traveled to Cambodia for the dedication of a school that she helped fund as well as purchased and delivered toys and books to an orphanage in Cambodia. She also organized a toy drive for All Children’s Hospital in St. Pete, a school supply drive and delivery of holiday toys for Memorial Elementary in the Migrant town of Arcadia as well as read to them on quarterly visits.
Stevie’s inspiration for starting Project Kindness came from the Building Buddies program started by Pine View School to support Memorial Elementary in Arcadia after their community was devastated by Hurricane Charley. Her Memorial pen pal informed me that Arcadia needed support even before Hurricane Charley hit. That summer, she contacted family and friends about the need at Memorial Elementary.
For the past 5 years, she has collected and organized enough school supplies and holiday gifts for the incoming 200 kindergartners. Three years ago Stevie started an annual “Back to School Rally” for a “Habitat for Humanity” neighborhood. She became involved with All Children’s Hospital and Sarasota Memorial Hospital by inviting birthday guests to bring gifts for the hospital instead of gifts for herself. This year she collected hundreds of toys and DVD’s by setting up collection sites in the community. Stevie recently began an effort to get donated baby car seats for the Mother-Baby Unit.
Her share of the money for the Cambodia school was raised by selling bandages to friends to “Band together” for others. Stevie traveled to Cambodian for the school dedication and orphanage visit in December.
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Tags: Habitat For Humanity, Project Kindness, Stevie Peacock
Stevie,
You are an inspiration to us all and an incredible young lady! May God Bless you in all that you do. Habitat for Humanity Sarasota’s homebuyers have benefited from the community service and geniune good hearts of many Pine View Students. I personally saw first-hand the joy on the faces of the chidren when they received your gift of school supplies before the start of this school year.
Your gift empowered these children to start their school year with confidence and eased the financial burden of many parents of paying for school supplies.It’s often difficult for our Habitat homeowners to come up with the funds needed to start the school year with shoes, clothes and school supplies. Keep spreading the joy…
Renee Snyder, Executive Director, Habitat for Humanity Sarasota