Abington Student Sends Blocks to Africa

John O'Riordan, an Abington High School senior and Eastern construction technology student, will help a needy primary school.

  Abington High School Senior and Eastern Center for Arts and Technology construction technology student John O’Riordan is shipping his senior project overseas — he’s sending it to Africa. O’Riordan has chosen to make building blocks for Katamoy Primary School in Kenya.  Earlier this year, O’Riordan asked Mary Rodgers, Abington High School’s Service Learning Facilitator, for some senior project suggestions. Knowing that O’Riordan is in his second year of construction technology at Eastern, Rodgers suggested the building block project using scrap lumber from Eastern’s programs.  Last summer, Rodgers accompanied a group of students and parents from Abington High School on a community service trip to the Rift Valley in Kenya. The communities …

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