This is my first time doing something so big,” said Siddi Sundar, 12, of Plainsboro. This past spring she and her cousin, Rohan Krishnan, 10, held a book and bake sale and raised $925 to benefit the West Windsor-based Eden Family of Services, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing lifespan services to children and adults with autism.##M:[more]##
Siddi organized the sale after her mother told her about a friend at work with a son at Eden. “I always see the building (on Route 1), but I didn’t know what it was,” she says. After doing some research on line she decided that she wanted to help.
“We thought that a sale would work and we told our parents,” she says. “We’re all into reading but how many times are we going to read the same books?” The families donated many books in the house. They also baked cookies and brownies.
Both students at Community Middle School, Siddi enters eighth grade in September and Rohan will be in sixth grade.
Siddi and Rohan’s next project is to read to the transition class at Eden. Each reading will be accompanied by a project. “When we read `If You Give a Mouse a Cookie,’ we will bring cookies to decorate,” says Siddi.
