Columbus Elementary School Helps 'Pick up the Tab' for Ronald McDonald House

From Columbus Elementary School:

Columbus Elementary School students and staff are actively collecting tabs from aluminum cans to benefit the Ronald McDonald House of the Greater Hudson Valley. The house, located at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital in Valhalla, NY, provides a home away from home for families of critically ill or injured children.

Columbus Elementary School has enrolled in the “Collect-A-Million Club” school recycling project developed by Ronald McDonald House. Upon collection of one million pull tabs, the school will be an official member of the Ronald McDonald House of the Greater Hudson Valley “Collect-A-Million Club” and will receive an assembly from Ronald McDonald himself!

Funds raised from the recycling of aluminum tabs supports general operating expenses to help the house keep its doors open to continue to serve families. Families staying at the Ronald McDonald House of the Greater Hudson Valley are asked to pay $15 per night, although the actual cost is $119 per night to accommodate each family. The pull tab recycling program is one of the ways that generates funds to help underwrite the cost of a night’s stay.

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