When Christ the King Regional School, located on Hopkins Avenue, decided to change its students uniform attire a question came up - what should be done with the "retired" uniforms?  The answer came from CKRS parents Carol Saldutti and Lynn Manning, who organized a uniform collection drive to gather the retire uniforms from CKRS families for donation to another Christ the King School, located in Kampala, Uganda.  The CKRS eighth-grade students were put in charge of managing and sorting the donated uniforms, one of many projects students perform fulfilling the Christ the King Regional School motto of "educating the mind, heart and spirit".

The donation of the uniforms was made possible through Global Playground, whose mission is "to raise awareness and share resources with people of the developing world to create educational opportunities where they do not exist."  The day after Thanksgiving, Global Playground chairman Doug Bunch, (who just happens to be the grandson of longtime Haddonfield resident Mary Howell) received more than 600 pounds of retired uniforms from CKRS students Megan S. (6-2), Jennie M. (5-2), and Robert S. (2-2).

Global Playground will complete the construction of an elementary school in the village of Buwasa, Uganda, in early 2008.  The school will serve 325 children in Buwasa and four other neighboring villages.  Later in 2008, Global Playground will build a five-classroom school for middle school students in Cambodia's Kandal Province. 

For more information on Global Playground, Inc. visit www.theglobalplayground.org.