Alright well West Haven High School
it's making sure no one is left out
of this year's promise is really cool.
So the cheerleading team there.
They're collecting dresses to make
sure everyone can look their best on
prom night without any price tags.
Let's check in with Fox 60 ones.
Lindsey Kane.
She is live in West Haven with the details.
Hey Lindsay.
Good morning, hi Symphony.
We're here at West Haven High
School and I'm joined by Bridgette
Hoskie and Emily Hennessy,
cheer coach and cheer
captain who are organizing.
You know this dress event.
So I'll start with you Bridget,
can you talk a little bit about why
all these beautiful dresses are
here and what made this come about?
So we started the West a drip project.
It's dream, respect, inclusion and
pride to ensure that every West Haven
High School senior can get to prom.
We saw a need with coming
out of the pandemic.
That people might need still need help,
so we're collecting formal
apparel to help kids get to prom
well and and you know,
all of these dresses.
Here are new. I mean,
you can see the price tags on them.
How many have you guys collected so
far? We've collected about 200
dresses from all kinds of places,
boutiques that have donated
brand new dresses and also people
from the community who have came
and gave us dresses. Wow, so if
students wanted to take advantage of
this, you know, how can they do so?
There's QR codes all around
the school which you can scan
and it brings you to a Google.
Warm where you fill out your information
like your name and your size,
and then there's a shopping day
at a boutique where you'd come
and pick out your dresses. OK,
great, so dresses are from size 2 to
26 so you have dresses for everybody.
Can you talk a little bit about
how the boutique event works?
So next week on Thursday and Friday
you'll be able to take a bus from the
school to the boutique and then from
the boutique they will bring you home
and then on Saturday you can come in.
Make an appointment.
And we'll be there and you'll be able
to come in and schedule a time to get
address or sign up for any other.
Any other services you might need.
You know her dress if you need a
haircut or something like that,
we will be doing those things as well
and you're even also helping
with transportation if need
be to the prom as well. Wow,
so we'll have not, you know,
school buses, but we're going to
have transportation to the event and
groups of kids who might need it.
Two probably leaving from like West Haven,
the beach in West Haven to the event and
then bringing them back to the beach or
to the West Haven High School. But yes,
yeah, this is so cool and it's so
cool to see. I know there's tons
of dresses in the other room.
We were over there as well earlier.
What's it like to see the
outpouring of support?
You know, from the community,
it feels really good and it feels
really good to be involved in
something like this where you can
just give back to the whole community.
Yeah, and definitely making a difference.
And I know you guys have been
talking about your school pride.
You know what is it like to?
See just, you know,
other students faces that you
know they're able to go to prom,
even if at one time they
thought maybe they couldn't
write and they in West Haven just as a whole.
It is Wesley Pride and you know they
always talk about being a westie,
and we always if there's a need,
West Haven comes together and they will
make sure that they deliver on that.
So it's it's. It's been amazing.
I mean, it's she's tracking all
of the apparel, and it's a it's.
It's just been incredible
and we're forever grateful.
So we hope kids register and we hope
that we help them get the prom great.
And for people that want to
donate, how can they do so?
We're still taking donations.
They can come to West Haven High School.
See one of the security
officers and they will get us
the apparel or the donation.
If its monetary you can drop off a check.
We have a Venmo account.
It's westy drip, so yeah,
there's many different ways,
so we just hope anyone who
wants it or needs the assistant
reaches out for it to us great.
Well, thank you both so much.
And before we go quick happy birthday,
shout out to Emily. Today is her.
Sweet 16 super excited.
Thank you both for being here.
This is so great to hear about it.
Back to you guys. Lindsay,
that's a great story.