The Interact Club is adopting teenagers for Christmas because its members feel that there are not enough funds dedicated to providing a proper Christmas for foster kids of this age group. The club is adopting 45 foster kids from the Monroe area, along with SMCC and Meadow Montessori, to provide them with Christmas gifts this holiday season.

During lunches, members of the club will be selling ornaments on which students can write messages to their friends. The ornaments, which will be sold for $1, will then hang on the windows in the learning commons.

Senior Haley Head, member of Interact, said she is excited to participate in a charitable fundraiser this season.

“The ornaments we will be buying are diamonds, snowmen and mittens, and I’m excited to sell them and help give Christmas to other kids,” Head said.

Senior Abbey Kootsillas, president of Interact, said that the fundraiser should be a success because it doesn’t cost much for students to give in a big way.

“I think it’s a really great idea because we have a chance to give back to our community, and it doesn’t cost much on your part either,” Kootillas said.

Advisor Sue Jones agrees that fundraiser should be a success.

“I think it is a great idea. I hope we sell quite a few.  We would like to raise $100 for each foster child,” Jones said.