From HTHS 2019-2020 Facebook page.
About 12 hundred students will make their way from Harrison Trimble High School to the Moncton Hospital tomorrow.
For nearly 40 years, students at Harrison Trimble High School has been raising money for the neonatal unit at Moncton Hospital.
Melissa Hoadley is the teacher leading this year’s Trojan Trek. She says the very first one was in 1981.
A student with a rare disease needed to go to Germany for treatment.
“So the students at the school decided to do a fundraiser to raise money so that he could make the trip over to Germany,” she says.
After that the school decided to find another cause to raise funds for.
Since then, the Trojan Trek has become an annual fundraiser for the Moncton Hospital’s neonatal care unit.
For two weeks, students raise money in various ways before presenting their total donation to the hospital.
Hoadley says the event has previously helped with the purchase of various equipment for the unit.
“There’s actually a room called ‘The Trojan Room’. It’s got a nice couch, table and chairs, a little kitchenette, a computer and a coffee machine and it was all decorated using money from Trojan Trek,” says Hoadley.
This year, they are raising money to finance the hospital’s new maternal fetal care facility.
Students will walk to the hospital from the school at 11:15 tomorrow morning to present their donation.
