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Sweatshirts to Help Iraq Children

Over twenty first-graders from the Oaklyn Elementary school near Sunbury are creating their own Sweatshirts for deprived children in Iraq. Kendra Stark aged six has an older brother serving in the army and she is sending the Sweatshirts to him so he can hand them out to the children. Kendra's brother, First Lieutenant Josh Mantz, has been in Iraq since October and asked his mother to send warm clothes for the children there instead of personal items for him. His mother says, "When I asked him why he explained that he's come in contact with a lot of children that are just very poor, have no clothes and they're very cold over there at night." Michele Stark feels very proud of her son and decided to approach her daughter's teacher Ron Pratt, who decided on this project to create the sweatshirts to help the children in Iraq.

Ron Pratt said, "Anything we can do for those kids over there and anything we can do for our troops that are basically fighting for our freedom is, like I said, a no-brainer." As well as working on the sweatshirt project, the children and the rest of the school are also taking part in a Pennies for Postage project to see who can raise the most pennies and the money will be used to post the Sweatshirts and other items of warm clothing to Iraq for Josh Manzt to distribute over there. Josh's mother says hopefully receiving the clothes will help him feel a little bit more happy that he does what he can to help the children in Iraq and feel more upbeat.