Pa. students help decorate Christmas tree for local charity [Video]

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) — Students at Mother Teresa Catholic School are known to write thank-you cards to a local charity called BLOCS around the holidays.

BLOCS, or ‘Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools,’ provides about 17,000 need-based scholarships to school children in the Philadelphia region each year.

“We get countless thank you letters from our students, for all the tuition assistance that we provide them throughout the year,” said Katie Rose Thornton, BLOCS Director of Marketing and Communications. “But this year, they found out that we don’t have any ornaments for our tree.”

The medium-sized Christmas tree sits in the small but mighty BLOCS office space in King of Prussia. And a handful of students were planning to take a trip there to decorate it.

But once the rest of their class found out about their mission, they wanted to join in.

“Because so many kids wanted to participate, we actually brought the tree …