The Spanish Honors Society will be sold the pulsera bracelets during lunches from March 3 to March 7. The pulseras were also sold at the Middle Schools Multicultural night to benefit sheltered Nicaraguan children.
“The Pulsera Project is a project that was started by Colin Crane and Chris Howell in conjunction with youth shelters in Nicaragua. The Spanish Honor Society helps ‘color the world’ by taking part in this project” said Spanish teacher and leader of the Spanish Honor Society, Heather Kinneman.
The Pulsera Project said “is a nonprofit organization that began in 2009 when a group of friends traveling in Central America discovered a community of young artists in the foothills of Nicaragua. The youths were masters at weaving bracelets (or “pulseras” in Spanish), but had no market to sell their artwork in Nicaragua. A few of the travelers returned to the U.S. with handfuls of pulseras to sell on behalf of the artists.”
The travelers saw the struggles these community was going through and decide to make a change to our World.
On the Pulsera Project website said “Since then, students and teachers in hundreds of school communities across the U.S. have sold pulseras, helping expand the project throughout Nicaragua…Volunteers have united around the simple idea–that by sharing art, knowledge, and ideas across cultural lines, we can create a more ethical and colorful world.”
The project has been expanding and raising more money and support for the children of Nicaragua.
The Pulsera Project sells the bracelets in hopes to raise money for shelters in Nicaragua. The Nicaraguan shelters protect children by keeping them in a safer place, from harm.
This is the third year York Suburban School Districts have participated in the Pulsera Project around the district.
The bracelets were sold at the Middle School on Multicultural night, Thursday, February 20. Also, the bracelets were sold during the lunches of the week March third, all the way to March seventh.
The benefits of the project are the children in Nicaragua, as well as the adult co-ops. The main purpose of the project is “to give back to those in need in the Spanish speaking world” said Kinneman.
“It is a good thing to do because it helps raise money for children that make them” said sophomore, Ashleigh Mackin who went to Multicultural night at the Middle School and saw the pulsera bracelets.
For more information, or if you have any comments/questions visit www.pulseraproject.org