{"id":7901,"date":"2023-03-05T11:32:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T16:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/?p=7901"},"modified":"2023-03-10T16:20:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T21:20:18","slug":"good-clean-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/2023\/03\/05\/good-clean-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Clean Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Assistance League of Northern Virginia has provided toiletry items to students at selected elementary schools for many years.\u00a0 Since the pandemic, we have expanded that effort and provide toiletry kits to older students at several schools. The kits contain a hair brush and comb, soap, shampoo, toothbrush & toothpaste, and deodorant.\u00a0 In January, our members packed about 300 toiletry kits that were delivered to 3 schools to be used as part of their Hygiene Curriculum. \u00a0Two schools had instructors who could teach the needed lessons about the importance of good hygiene particularly during puberty.\u00a0 The third school needed an instructor.\u00a0 Luckily, one of our own marvelous members, Debbie D., a registered nurse, was willing and able to provide the instruction.\u00a0 She kept 170 fifth and sixth grade students interested and engaged in discussions about \u2018good hygiene from head to toe,\u2019 and used the items in the kit to illustrate her lessons.\u00a0 She presented various scenarios and asked the students which showed good or poor hygiene.\u00a0 Students also asked questions of their own. \u00a0As the students returned to their classrooms, they were given their own hygiene kits to take home. \u00a0We are incredibly grateful to Debbie for preparing such wonderful lessons for these students.<\/p>\n

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We know that both students and teachers appreciated the kits and the hygiene lessors. \u00a0An instructor at a school that received toiletry kits last fall provided feedback recently on how important they were.\u00a0 She noted that the school offers hygiene instruction in connection with its Family Life curriculum, which covers a range of topics including changes during puberty.\u00a0 She reported that having the toiletry kits to give to students was a double blessing. \u00a0The kits helped relieve some of the students\u2019 anxiety and also relieved parents of having to purchase those essential \u00a0The teacher stated that Assistance League \u201chas supported our students and families in so many amazing ways over the years and providing the hygiene packs is just one more generous donation that helps to support our students so they are able to come to school every day feeling good and ready to learn.\u201d \u00a0Receiving such terrific feedback reinforces our members\u2019 commitment to continue serving the most vulnerable in our community.<\/p>\n

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Assistance League of Northern Virginia has provided toiletry items to students at selected elementary schools for many years.\u00a0 Since the pandemic, we have expanded that effort and provide toiletry kits to older students at several schools. The kits contain a hair brush and comb, soap, shampoo, toothbrush & toothpaste, and deodorant.\u00a0 In January, our members […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65463,"featured_media":7902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8068,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901\/revisions\/8068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}