MANALAPAN – Students who are part of the SADD Club (Students Against Destructive Decisions) at Manalapan High School decided to collect virtual Valentine’s Day cards to send across the community.
With the help of SADD Club Advisor Cara Daniello, students in SADD were able to collect over 1,500 virtual Valentine’s Day cards coming from 50 different classes and clubs at Manalapan High School. The club contacted several nursing homes, hospitals, and care centers to email them the digital cards.
After receiving them, the cards would then be printed out and distributed to residents, patients and frontline workers.
Ms. Daniello and SADD Club members were surprised and thrilled when they learned that a Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital where they had sent the cheerful messages forwarded those valentines to every VA facility in the country, according to a statement released by Freehold Regional High School District.
Initially, members of the SADD club had a goal of spreading 10,000 smiles across New Jersey but the plan quickly changed to spreading as many smiles as possible around the nation.
The members of the SADD club thanked everyone within the school community who helped spread kindness across the country this Valentine’s Day with their virtual cards.
The facilities and hospitals SADD sent virtual Valentine’s Day cards to include:
- CentraState Medical Center.
- St. Mary’s Hospital for Children, New York.
- St. Anthony’s Hospital – Baycare, Florida.
- St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, Tennessee.
- Sunrise of Marlboro.
- Sunrise of Lincroft.
- The Chelsea at Manalapan.
- Pinebrook Care Center.
- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- The Wesley Community, New York.
- All three of New Jersey’s K. Hovnanian’s Children Hospitals.
- All 170 Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals.
