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Students donate 200 hygiene bags for Coconut Grove residents
Ransom Everglades’ Volunteer Service Council collaborated with Joshua’s Heart Foundation to host the organization's annual hygiene drive. Joshua Williams '18, an RE alumnus and the 2024 Founders' Award winner, founded Joshua’s Heart with the mission to support underserved communities and alleviate poverty on a local, as well as global scale.
Donations were collected every day before school from students, faculty, and staff across both the high school and middle school campuses for two weeks prior. After school on September 5, student volunteers gathered at 4 p.m. to pack the bags in a coordinated effort that demonstrated the strong community spirit of Ransom Everglades. Faculty members Laura Miller and Jenny Carson '03 assisted the effort. The drive resulted in the creation of over 200 hygiene bags, filled with essential personal care items like shampoo, deodorant, toilet paper, etc.
On Saturday, September 7, the packed hygiene bags were distributed to local residents at 8 a.m. at the Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church in Coconut Grove. This local outreach aimed to support vulnerable members of the Coconut Grove community by providing much-needed supplies.
The event marked yet another successful collaboration between Ransom Everglades and Joshua’s Heart Foundation. By supporting local communities, students continue to make meaningful contributions toward alleviating poverty and giving back to those in need.
- Nina Rivera '25
- Nina Rivera '25
RE Student Participants
Nina Rivera '25
Antonia Pinnar '25
Zoe Weber '27
Olivia Gomez '27
Garoe del Coso '27
Leah Winer '28
Lina Febres '26
Lola Pegg '26
Sarah Wals '27
Nica Rosenberg
Brody Sundheim '26
Ellie Feldman '27
Jade Dennis '27
Annie Minick '27
Luke Jaffee’ 26
Landon Elfenbein '29
Benjamin Rodriguez '29
Students at the Distribution
Lina Febres '26
Lilah Murphy '27
Max Feldman '26
Brody Sundheim '26
Benjamin Rodriguez '29
Middle School
2045 South Bayshore Drive, Coconut Grove, FL 33133Phone: 305 250 6850
Upper School
3575 Main Highway, Coconut Grove, FL 33133Phone: 305 460 8800
Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.