TOWAMENCIN- With over 86 charter schools in the inner city of Philadelphia and a small amount of funding toward the educational and after school programs, NPHS key club members junior Livia Lundquist and Julie Mumford, decided now was a good time to start back up the Love Your Brother Project.

Proposed a few years ago, the Love Your Brother project hasn’t had the chance to be implemented until now, and the project intends to collect school and art supplies and sports equipment to hand out to Hispanic charter schools.

“All the key club members receive hours for donating, because we are hoping to get enough items to donate to at least four elementary schools,” explained Mumford.

The drive to get more items is very important to support such inner city schools that do not get enough funding. With a school as large as NPHS that has over 3,000 students enrolled, one might consider and appreciate the fact that sufficient funding is received.

The Key Club hopes that between February 27th and March 14th, NPHS should be able to donate enough items to suffice four elementary schools.

“It’s a really important cause, and a lot of us take for granted the funding and resources we get at North Penn, but not all public schools are funded [and] created equally. We have so many opportunities to grow and truly learn about what we desire, but students closer to us than we think struggle to receive basic supplies and struggle to make ends meet in school and at home,” said Lundquist.

Both Mumford and Lundquist plan on going to the elementary schools themselves to hang out the items. They want to show how much NPHS cares about schools in need and how the school understands the importance of education for others.

“I think it’s a great way to show we care about the schools in Philadelphia. Since North Penn has so many students who could easily afford extra school supplies, why not put that to good use? Education is important for every student no matter how much money they have, and I hope that this project is able to make an impact for those schools in need,” said Juliet Israel, Key Club secretary.