The Webutuck Teachers’ Association is helping families affected by domestic violence.
(Webutuck 2nd grader Hailey Brennan is pictured.)
The Webutuck Teachers’ Association is helping families affected by domestic violence. On Friday the group donated many overflowing boxes of diapers, baby formula, and toiletries to Grace Smith House. Grace Smith House provides both residential and non-residential services to victims of violence and their children. Students, community members, and Webutuck faculty and staff contributed hundreds of items.
The Webutuck Teachers’ Association Social Justice Committee organized the donation in honor of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on November 25. WTA President Rebecca Garrard thinks it’s an important cause for the Webutuck community to support. “It’s never too early to start teaching children that violence is not the way to solve a problem.”
According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, on average nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States.
