Education 12 January 2011

Shawnee State faculty, staff and students make Christmas possible for underprivileged

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Shawnee State faculty, staff and students make Christmas possible for underprivileged
 
Tim Steflik, Shawnee State University alumni, has been working in the Peace Corps since graduating in 2010 in Zavet, Bulgaria. He works with underprivileged troubled boys as a youth development volunteer.
When he called on SSU to help with some warm clothing for the boys who only had one shirt to wear, SSU student Mandie Maxwell, of Wooster, Ohio, coordinated a clothing drive for them. Within a couple of weeks, she recruited volunteers and sent more than 40 shirts and 30 pairs of socks to the boys.
Steflik organized a Christmas party with sports games and gave out presents for the boys. He wrapped the socks and toothbrushes and toothpaste his dentist in Georgia sent for the boys.
“The kids absolutely loved the clothes and they were very grateful for everything they received,” Steflik said. “Overall, I was so happy to see the kids smiling all day and having more warm clothes to wear for a cold winter.”
Shawnee State Alumni Tim Steflik is a youth development volunteer in the Peace Corps in Zavet, Bulgaria, where he works with students who have been in trouble. Most of the boys only had one shirt to wear and the faculty, staff and students at SSU sent more than 40 shirts to the boys just before Christmas, along with 30 pairs of socks. Some of the boys look over the dozens of shirts donated before the party that Steflik planned for them.
Tim Steflik, Shawnee State University alumni, has been working in the Peace Corps since graduating in 2010 in Zavet, Bulgaria. He works with underprivileged troubled boys as a youth development volunteer.
When he called on SSU to help with some warm clothing for the boys who only had one shirt to wear, SSU student Mandie Maxwell, of Wooster, Ohio, coordinated a clothing drive for them. Within a couple of weeks, she recruited volunteers and sent more than 40 shirts and 30 pairs of socks to the boys.
Steflik organized a Christmas party with sports games and gave out presents for the boys. He wrapped the socks and toothbrushes and toothpaste his dentist in Georgia sent for the boys.
“The kids absolutely loved the clothes and they were very grateful for everything they received,” Steflik said. “Overall, I was so happy to see the kids smiling all day and having more warm clothes to wear for a cold winter.”
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