FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
February 9, 2010
Contact: Sarah Hernholm
Title: Founder, President
Office: 619.677.2238
Email: sarah@witkids.org
WITKIDS AND THE DINNER GARDEN PARTNERING AGAIN FOR
FAMILY FRIENDLY “GIVE A DAY.GET A DISNEY DAY.” VOLUNTEER EVENT
San Diego, CA, Feb. 9, 2010- Last month the WitKids-Dinner Garden Disney Event proved to be a huge success. On January 30, sixty-four families from all over Southern California made their way to Amici Park in Little Italy for a day of volunteering. They spent the day bagging seeds, making pots out of newspaper, learning “Go Green” tips, and in the end earned a free ticket to Disneyland. Emily Wilson, a 5th grader from Rancho Bernardo, said, “My day was spent packaging many different seeds, making cards, and planting seeds in a newspaper vase. Everything was environmentally safe and everybody there was so friendly. When it came to the end of the day an announcement was made that we did Whatever It Takes and that we the kids are successful when we all work together as one whole.” They were successful! At the end of the day over 10,000 seeds were bagged. Many of the bags were distributed to locals interested in growing their own food, community gardeners and students growing their own school gardens. Some seeds were sent to schools in different states where people are solving the hunger problem by growing their own food. Brody Ensor, a 5th grader, summed it up best when he exclaimed, “We are WitKids making the world a better place!”
Due to the great response, WitKids and The Dinner Garden are hosting another “Give A Day. Get a Disney Day” event on February 27, 2010. Everyone is invited to come down between the hours of 9:00 a.m.- 2:30 p.m. to Amici Park in Little Italy to pick up bags of seeds for family, friends, neighbors and classmates. Those interested in volunteering at WitKids events can send an email to info@witkids.org or go to www.witkids.org for more information.
About WitKids, Inc.
Founded in 2009, WitKids, Inc. is a non-profit organization, started by a former San Diego teacher, with a mission to educate, inspire, and empower kids to make a difference in their school, community, and the world through volunteer work and community service. The WitKids program is currently in four San Diego schools (elementary, middle, high school), three states, and at The Daraja Academy in Nairobi.
For more information, please contact:
Sarah Hernholm
WitKids, Inc
sarah@witkids.org
619.677.2238
About The Dinner Garden
The Dinner Garden is a national hunger fighting non-profit organization that gives free fruit and vegetable seeds to anyone in the USA who wants to grow their own food. To date, the Dinner Garden has supplied seeds to over 20,000 individuals, families, and communities.
For more information, please contact:
Holly Hirshberg
The Dinner Garden
holly@dinnergarden.org
210-979-1776
Thank you to the 300+ volunteers that came to Pacific Beach, Ocean Beach and Oceanside on Saturday, March 27. WitKids and WitFans picked up a total of 406.25 pounds of trash!!
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