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School Notes: Champion Drama Club Helps Haiti

The school's drama club presented a check to Fuller Center on Thursday to help rebuild Haiti.

Champion Theme Middle School's production of Once on This Island, Jr. last year turned out not only to be fun and entertaining; it also is helping a worthy cause.Β 

Drama Club sponsor Joy Hammond on Thursday presented a check for $588.38 to Mark Galey, president of the housing nonprofit Fuller Center Greater Atlanta. The money was part of the proceeds from the show and will go toward building a house in Haiti, where hundreds of thousands are still homeless more than a year after the devastating earthquake of January 2010.

"It was so much fun," Gary Williams, an eighth grader who performed in the show, said, and giving back "was a really good feeling."

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The experience helped the students learn more about Haiti, and it "made us realize how much they still need help," he said.

A broadway show that was adapted for younger performers, Once on This Island, Jr. is a musical based on the the fairy tale The Little Mermaid and is set on a Caribbean island much like Haiti.

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The school had been working with the Fuller Center, and a representative from the nonprofit came to every presentation of the show at the Porter Sanford Theater to talk about Haiti and its work there, Hammond said. So after tallying up the proceeds, the drama club decided to donate part of the profit to help rebuild Haiti.

"As a drama club, we want to continue giving back," Hammond said. "We want the students to know what they do is making a difference."


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