Students' Spare Change = Gifts For Others

Each year during March and April, students at the Evangel Christian School in Long Island City put their spare change into piggy banks in their classrooms for the sole purpose of gathering money to pay for muchneeded "gifts" for children and families in underdeveloped and poverty-stricken communities throughout America.

During the last week in April the students breakopen the banks and count their cash, they then choose their gift or gifts from the "World Vision Catalog" provided by the "Love Loaf Project of World Vision".

This April students raised $1,078, and chose the following gifts: goats for nourishment and income, sheep for wool and milk, bicycles for transportation, childhood immunization programs, winter jackets, shoes, fruit trees for food and income, tools and training for farm families, wells for clean water - even fish ponds for food and income, said the school's Principal Marilyn Johannsen.-Liz Goff