Sunrise School for Autistic Learners

06/07/2025

Friends of Sunrise School spotted at Saxtons River's 4th of July celebration...

30/03/2025

Friends of Sunrise School at the Route 91 highway welcome center in Hartford this afternoon… Green Mountain Burritos were all the rage!!

12/11/2024

Come see us at the Generosity Fair!

08/04/2024

The Education Committee, staff, and students of Sunrise School wish to express our deepest gratitude to the Rev. Dr. Susan Tarolli; Marjorie Reid and her quilting companions; and everyone else at Second Congregational Church of Greenfield, MA for this morning's extraordinary welcome, the eight beautiful quilts for Sunrise children, and their other gifts of love.

24/03/2024

The story of the hummingbird is about this huge forest being consumed by a fire. All the animals in the forest come out and they are transfixed as they watch the forest burning and they feel very overwhelmed, very powerless, except this little hummingbird. It says, ‘I’m going to do something about the fire!’ So it flies to the nearest stream and takes a drop of water. It puts it on the fire, and goes up and down, up and down, up and down, as fast as it can.

In the meantime, all the other animals, much bigger animals like the elephant with a big trunk that could bring much more water, they are standing there helpless. And they are saying to the hummingbird, ‘What do you think you can do? You are too little. This fire is too big. Your wings are too little and your beak is so small that you can only bring a small drop of water at a time.’

But as they continue to discourage it, it turns to them without wasting any time and it tells them, ‘I am doing the best I can.’
And that to me is what all of us should do. We should always be like a hummingbird. I may be insignificant, but I certainly don’t want to be like the animals watching the planet goes down the drain. I will be a hummingbird, I will do the best I can.
Wangari Maathai

22/03/2024

Boaz and the prevocational learners have been busy sewing!

22/03/2024

Karibu sana! Come visit!!

22/03/2024

Did you know Rotary does amazing things globally as well as locally? We welcomed Wanda Salter at a recent meeting to present her with a $5,000 donation to the Sunrise School in Kenya to support their solar project. The Sunrise School is for students with autism and the facility frequently deals with power outages. We were delighted to surprise the director of the school and a teacher through Zoom with our donation...there even may have been some happy dancing involved!

22/03/2024

https://www.wnesu.org/apps/news/article/1789617?fbclid=IwAR0CVzE_G19-n5hlcr6kPOCOACIKn-hWe8TtgqnNwi_TJVMmnfA0pKZ6mcg

Enjoy this Staff Spotlight on Wanda Salter and Marjie Ottenbreit and their work with the Sunrise School for Learners with Autism in Kenya.

22/03/2024

Sunrise School for Autistic Learners on the road again…Karen Nell Smith and Wanda Salter are at the Annual Meeting of the Vermont Conference of the United Church of Christ!