Micah Children's Initiative
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The Micah Children’s Initiative is our school-church partnership with the Robert J. O’Brien STEM Academy in East Hartford.
We believe in the inherent dignity, worth and value of every child and their right to a good education. It troubles us to live in a region where the local tax base plays an outsized role in the educational support that children receive. Through the generosity of our congregation, we provide volunteers and material support as we partner with the children and staff of O'Brien School.
Over the last several years we have opened a clothing closet with school uniforms and winter apparel, read remotely to students for the United Way’s Read for the Record program, conducted teacher appreciation events and cleaned the school courtyard. We have also donated children's books and other classroom materials, purchased water bottles for each student, provided COVID-19 safety supplies and added a new welcome banner to the school entrance.
We have committed to the East Hartford Public Schools that our partnership will be collaborative, supportive, multi-faceted, needs-based, participatory, well-funded, sustainable and strategic, and we envision in the coming decades a continuing blossoming of this relationship.
Our work so far is only the tip of the iceberg in what we envision for our long-term partnership. We look forward to increased face-to-face interaction and expanding our support to the entire O’Brien community.
Micah Children's Initiative introduction video
Click here to download our Capital Campaign information about MCI.
Please contact Nancy Tandon at nancymtandon@gmail.com or Judy Rozie-Battle at jrbattle@aol.com for more information.
A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child. – Forest Witcraft, Teacher and Scholar
