FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Puzzles Pieces
PlaySchool
Offers Spring Fling Week
March 29, 2004--Morristown
NJ: Focus America’s latest project, Puzzle
Pieces PlaySchool (located at the Xavier Center on the Sisters of Charity of
St. Elizabeth campus), announces a special Spring Fling Week for toddlers and
preschoolers from 9:00 to 1:00 during the week of April 12th to 17th. Children will engage
in activities that celebrate spring including experiments with nature, stories,
arts and crafts, outdoor exploration, and games. Snacks
are included (but children must bring bagged lunches). Puzzle Pieces’ childcare
facility, sponsored by Focus America, is run by staff and volunteers who
engage the children in interactive activities.
Most of the volunteers are young college students who are studying education,
business, communication, and psychology. The goal of Puzzle Pieces is to
provide children with an environment of external stimulation and socialization
in a
clean, nurturing environment. In addition, children participate in structured
themed activities and age-appropriate learning. ABOUT PUZZLE PIECES
PLAYSCHOOL: Puzzles Pieces is a program managed by Focus America. Providing structured
activities as well as childcare for toddlers and preschoolers, the program
helps provide a nurturing and academic environment for children. All proceeds
are used to fund Focus America’s projects that center on helping children
in impoverished communities throughout the US. ABOUT FOCUS
AMERICA: Founded in October 2002, Focus America is a 501c3 non-profit volunteer-run
corporation that provides various levels of community support through the
talents, skills, and dedication of an extensive network of volunteers,
mostly college
students from Northern New Jersey as well as a few out-of-state universities.
The volunteers work specifically with destitute and underserved communities,
focusing on addressing basic needs (shelter, food, and clothing) then introducing
mentor programs to help improve the self-esteem of the hardest hit members
of these communities: the children. Their ultimate goal is to help eliminate
poverty in these underdeveloped communities while developing the business
skills of the college-aged volunteers who create, implement, and manage
the projects.
For more information, contact Shelly Zimmerman at szimmerman@focusamerica.org
or visit their website at http://www.focusamerica.org. CONTACT: Shelly
Zimmerman, President and Founder
PO Box 267
Convent Station, NJ 07961
862-812-0648 (cell) or 973-993-8639 (home)
szimmerman@focusamerica.org
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