{"id":70924,"date":"2024-01-07T12:56:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T09:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armenia23.ru\/?p=70924"},"modified":"2024-01-07T12:56:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T09:56:05","slug":"students-were-inspired-by-the-secretive-secret-santa-to-raise-8000-and-donate-the-entire-amount-to-those-in-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armenia23.ru\/?p=70924","title":{"rendered":"Students were inspired by the secretive Secret Santa to raise $8,000 and donate the entire amount to those in need."},"content":{"rendered":"

Inspired by a popular CBS News story about a wealthy businessman who distributes money around Christmas, <\/p>\n

a Phoenix elementary school teacher started a \u2018Secret Santa Club\u2019 to teach kids about the importance of compassion and generosity.<\/p>\n

Although teacher Derek Brown utilizes the Steve Hartman part from \u2018On the Road\u2019 as a teaching aid, students have always responded most favorably to the Secret Santa narrative.<\/p>\n

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Nicholas Talamantes, a student, spoke for the class and said he couldn’t believe somebody did this kind of thing.<\/p>\n

Brown therefore formed a giving gang out of the pupils for the 2023 Christmas season, outfitting them in red plaid shirts and caps, <\/p>\n

and gave them instructions to call nearby businesses and organizations to solicit donations for their own Secret Santa project.<\/p>\n

Brown told CBS News, \u2018I want this memory to be so strong that it now drives them every day, in everything they do.\u2019<\/p>\n

They then located the most vulnerable citizens in the city, such as a local who had lost their job for a week <\/p>\n

or another who had just received a cancer diagnosis, and they gave them a big smile along with $100 in cash.<\/p>\n

Undoubtedly motivated by the same encouragement that their own show provided to the Secret Santa Club, <\/p>\n

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CBS News documented as many of these encounters as they could, and even via the news cameras, the appreciation is evident.<\/p>\n

But the act of giving itself was the gift for the students.<\/p>\n

\u2018I’ve never felt this way in my life,\u2019 said Carissa Cheong, a student and club member. \u2018So, in a way, this changed my life.\u2019<\/p>\n

Speaking to Steve Hartman directly, Evangeline D’Agostino, a younger student, expressed it as plainly as Socrates or Plato.<\/p>\n

\u2018The gift to you is their joy,\u2019 she remarked.<\/p>\n