Epiphany School Sixth Graders Raise $6000 Through "Footprints For A Change" Run/Walk Race

NEW BERN, N.C. - Sept. 27, 2013 - PRLog -- (New Bern, NC) – A group of sixth graders from the Epiphany School of Global Studies in New Bern raised $6000 when they held “Footprints for a Change 5K and 1 mile Run/Walk” on Saturday, September 21, starting at the River Bend Recreation Center, 45 Shoreline Drive in River Bend, NC.

With 177 runners and walkers participating, the event was a fundraiser to benefit RHA Howell River Bend Center (http://www.rhahowell.org), which is home to 125 children and adults with disabilities. Proceeds will be used to purchase of a new “whiteboard,” an interactive learning tool used in classrooms for people with special needs.

Howell River Bend Center administrator Tina Stewart and Cille Griffith, the Epiphany School’s Director of Institutional Advancement, assisted the students with the event.

The young group’s mission was to “simply make a difference and give a voice to uniquely special people by raising awareness and hope,” said Epiphany student Madelyn Bircher with fellow students Savannah and Lexie Sparks. “The wonderful people who live at RHA Howell are joyously strong and have always persevered.  We wanted to give back to their bravery.”

"I am so thrilled with our Epiphany 6th graders and with Tina and Cille,” said Georgiana Bircher, the owner of Game On, one of the event’s sponsors, and Madelyn Bircher’s mother. “They blew away their goals!"

Sponsors for the event included: Game on, Pepsi, Morcom Medical Associates, White and Allen, Progressive Graphics, Culligan Water Conditioning, Minges Bottling Group, Chick-Fil-A, New Bern Sporting Goods, Carpet One, Coastal Fence, Hartman Wright Attorneys at Law, Susan and Wayne Deutscher, H. Reid Hart Family Dentistry, New Bern Gymnastics, Davis Hartman Wright PLLC, and Progressive Graphics.

For more information on RHA Howell, contact Debbie Valentine: dvalentine@rhanet.org: 919-803-2960.

About The Epiphany School of Global Studies:

The Epiphany School of Global Studies is rooted in the pioneering ideals of founders Nicholas and Catherine Sparks, who envisioned a school with an extraordinary college preparatory program where the Judaic-Christian commitment to “Love God and Your Neighbor as Yourself “ is an ethical commitment, Christian tradition is celebrated, but students of all faiths and no particular faith are welcome in the spirit of good neighbors. Founded in 2006, the school is nationally recognized for its quality of the college-preparatory education and for its first-in-kind, comprehensive global studies program that emphasizes fluency in a second world language, wide-ranging global topics imbedded into the curriculum, and extensive educational opportunities abroad for its students.

About RHA Howell:

RHA Howell has been providing supports and services to children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities for more than 35 years. We work closely with individuals and their families to make their lives as independent as possible with an emphasis on community inclusion. Mrs. Irene Howell founded the original Howell Care Centers in 1970. Over the next 30 years, Mrs. Howell established a network of Howell Care Centers, and upon her retirement, entrusted her legacy to RHA Health Services. Today, RHA Howell, Inc. carries on the Howell Care Centers tradition. For more information: www.rhahowell.org.