CAPE CARTERET â Students at two Carteret County elementary schools are collecting items to be given to nursing home residents as part of a service-learning study on the effects of loneliness.
âThis year I read a post on Facebook where a nursing home employee was looking for donations to help make the holidays a little brighter for their residents because so many of them had not been able to see their families in so long due to the coronavirus,â academically and intellectually gifted teacher Elizabeth Foxworth said.
The AIG teacher, along with fourth- and fifth-grade students at White Oak Elementary and Bogue Sound Elementary School, are collecting items for residents of four county assisted living facilities. Those wanting to drop off items can do so in front of the two schools through Wednesday. Collection boxes are placed at the main entrances of both schools during school hours.