FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) In ABC30 s segment, Education Spotlight, Action News Anchor Landon Burke will talk with Merced County Office of Education (MCOE) officials about some of the biggest topics in education.
Children in foster care are navigating the pandemic without many of the comforts we often take for granted. Landon Burke spoke with four high school freshmen about their new service project and how the rest of us can follow their lead.
Landon: My understanding is that you guys are raising money for foster youth, is that correct?
Siya Lakireddy: Correct. So we are part of a group called SEVA Merced. It is a group of high school freshmen, and our acronym SEVA stands for serve, enrich, volunteer and accomplish. But the word seva itself is from the language Sanskrit, in which it means service. So we wanted to really use what we put in our acronym, and we wanted to help better our community. And, we started off with this Cookies for CASA project, which. Yes, it is to help loc