The holiday season is one of celebrations in all kinds of cultures, many of which are represented here at North Penn High School. This year, the Model United Nations Club chose to bring these cultures together just as the real United Nations does in their 2nd Annual Cultural Celebration.

The Cultural Celebration was started last year by then senior Rebecca Lamb in an effort to bring the different cultural clubs at North Penn together to learn about each other’s cultures through food, presentations, and even performances. The event being a major success, the club’s current officers have brought back the celebration with some new additions.

This year, the event will be holiday themed with each cultural club, from the German Club to the Jewish Club, representing how they celebrate their respective holidays. The event will take place Wednesday, December 17th from 2:30 to 4:00 in the cafeteria. The club members will be stationed at tables in the cafeteria for attendees to visit and to learn more about a particular culture and their unique traditions and food.

In addition to the presentations, several clubs will be giving special performances that represent their culture. The Bengali Cultural Club and the Chinese Cultural Club will be performing musical dance performances while the Jewish Cultural Club will be performing traditional Hebrew songs.

The event also serves as a fundraiser for the charity, 20/20/20, which works to provide sight-giving surgery to blind people in underdeveloped countries. The surgery removes a patient’s damaged eye lens and replaces it, a procedure that takes just fifteen minutes and costs just under $300, but that could save someone’s life. Without the financial access to this surgery, adults and children suffer alike from not being able to work to provide for their family or go to school to be educated because of their blindness.

The cultural clubs along with the Model UN Club have worked for the past month to gather donations for the charity as well as run a pie throwing contest. At all lunch periods, jars can be found in the senior cafeteria labeled with the names of five administrators: Mr. Brumbaugh, Mr. Bartle, Mr. Fluck, Mr. Haley, and Mr. Mostert. The teacher whose jar receives the most donations by the day of the event will be pied in the face at the event. Additionally, the club which raises the most donations will receive a pizza party.

As noted by Model UN secretary Sara Huzar, the event “work[s] to bring all of the cultures here at North Penn together,” and is sure to be an exciting and fun celebration benefitting a very worthy cause.