Stanton, Local Business Partner to Deliver Gifts to Rockwood Family
During the holidays, Stanton Elementary and a Fenton-based business – Beckwood Hydraulic Press Company – combined to help make it a very special season for a family in the community.
Beckwood was looking to help purchase gifts for a family in the community and connected with Stanton school counselor Karisa Leathers. The student she had in mind – fifth-grader Mohammad – has a deep love of music.
Leathers reached out to Mohammad’s family to ask what gift he might want for the holiday season.
“His mother immediately said, ‘a guitar or a keyboard,’” Leathers said. “All of us who work with Mo, we talk to him and do a lot with him with music as an incentive because his love of music is so great.”
Beckwood stepped up, holding a donation drive at the company to provide for those two requests and more. Then, Leathers enlisted the help of her daughters to wrap the gifts and get them to their final destination.
“It turned into this amazing thing. Beckwood went above and beyond,” Leathers said. “It’s such a heartwarming thing. It made (Mohammad’s) day. It helped me teach a lesson to my girls, too, that this is what the season is for. It was just so fulfilling.
“I want companies and people around us to know that, if you’re looking to do something – no matter how small you think it is – the little, small things mean so much to some of our children and some of our families. No small thing goes unnoticed. Everything means something even bigger to these students and their families.”
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