The Brandywine Heights High School Key Club is once again asking the community to bring spare change to the Topton Halloween Parade Oct. 11.
The members of the club will be collecting during the parade, followed by a homeroom contest during the month of October.
Proceeds from the collection with be forwarded to UNICEF in hopes of helping to eradicate maternal and neonatal tetanus. In the 90 minutes, parade-goers will spend getting candy, 10 babies will die of a preventable disease.
“It only costs $1.80 U.S. dollars for three vaccine doses to protect a woman and her unborn babies,” according to www.TheEliminateProject.org.
“Last year, with the help of the local community and the homeroom collection, we raised around $230”, according to Mrs. Sanders, one of the club advisors. The funds helped over 100 women to get vaccinated.
Sanders asks the community that while packing your candy bags, please bring some change. “It can literally save someone’s life!”
