Local children enjoy selecting gifts for RE's annual Toy Store

12/10/2024

Children in Coconut Grove loved "shopping" for the toys and books donated by students at Ransom Everglades School during the annual middle school toy drive, a tradition for some 30 years. More than 140 children visited Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church to select gifts from about 500 children's items on December 7, and they were assisted by RE student volunteers and faculty members Flavia Araripe, Maria Eugenia Abrante and Ramona Miller.

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RE and Grove community members volunteered for the toy store
Smiles all around as children select donated toys
There were more than 500 items for boys and girls to select from
Smiles all around as children select donated toys
RE students help neighborhood children select the perfect items
Some of the RE students on the morning of the toy store
An RE student helps a neighborhood child select toys and a book
An RE student helps a neighborhood child select toys
Neighborhood children and their parents gather before the toy store opened
RE students help neighborhood children select the perfect items
A jubilent child shows his family toys he selected in the toy store
RE students help neighborhood children select the perfect items
RE students help neighborhood children select the perfect items
More than 500 items were donated by RE families
RE students help neighborhood children select the perfect items
Samuel Davis '28 volunteered to capture the event
Maria Eugenia Abrante and students working on the toy store
Art supplies donated by RE students
RE and Grove community members volunteered for the toy store
Ramona Miller, Maria Eugenia Abrante and Flavia Araripe

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Middle School

2045 South Bayshore Drive, Coconut Grove, FL 33133
Phone: 305 250 6850

Upper School

3575 Main Highway, Coconut Grove, FL 33133
Phone: 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.

RE founder Paul Ransom, circa 1903

Local children enjoy selecting gifts for RE's annual Toy Store

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