Dancing for ‘Champions’: Fundraiser to Benefit Mentor Group

Fairfield Mirror (Fairfield, CT) April 5, 2011 "'Mentoring Makes Champions for Life – you can help ‘champion’ a child to better grades, better confidence, more strength in the face of adversity, and a successful, crime-free adult life'. So reads the pamphlet for one of Fairfield’s newer student organizations, the Champions Mentoring program. This student-run organization, started by Christine Beggan ’12 seeks to provide healthy mentor-mentee relationships with young students in Bridgeport with either one or both of their parents incarcerated. Beggan has paired up with FUSA’s Freshman Class Council to host the first-ever Dance-a-Thon to raise money for the Champions program." Read More