FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MANHATTAN COLLEGE STUDENTS HOST ANNUAL TOY DRIVE FOR UNDERPRIVLIGED KIDS IN THE SOUTH BRONX

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – In the tradition of giving this holiday season, Manhattan College student volunteers, in cooperation with the College’s campus ministry and social action department, are hosting the annual toy drive. The College will be accepting toy donations until December 17, 2004. Toy donations may be delivered to College’s Miguel Hall, Cornerstone-Room 209.

Manhattan College student organizations, as well as faculty and staff, have already contributed generously to this drive. Student volunteers and campus ministry staff hope to distribute on December 18 toys to more than 200 kids of St. Jerome’s Parish in the South Bronx. Most of the children are from underprivileged families who reside in one of the poorest communities in the New York City metro area.

Manhattan College’s annual toy drive was established three years ago by the Lasallian Collegians, an on-campus group that focuses on volunteer work and community service. Toy donations would be greatly appreciated. If interested in participating in this project or making a donation, please contact Kinah Ventura of the College’s campus ministry and social action department at (718) 862-7477. Members of the press interested in covering the December 18 toy drive may contact Melanie A. Farmer, public information officer, at (718) 862-7232.

Manhattan College was founded in 1853 upon the Lasallian heritage of excellence in teaching inspired by St. John Baptist de La Salle.  Manhattan College is an independent, Catholic, coeducational institution of higher learning offering more than 40 major programs of study in the areas of arts, business, education, engineering and science.

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