Silica For Your Home, The Fond du Lac Evening Optimist Club, and Envision Greater Fond du Lac are welcoming Acacia (nicknamed ‘Tiny”) Woodley, the founder of Tiny Girl, Big Dream back to the Fond du Lac area. Woodley is in Fond du Lac to unveil her Friendship Benches at Parkside, Chegwin, and Evans Elementary Schools, as well as The Fond du Lac Boys and Girls Club. Woodley was in Fond du Lac a little over a year ago, delivering Friendship Benches and telling her story to four local elementary schools. Now 16 years old, Woodley’s big dream began when she was 10 years old. She was bullied at the age of nine after her family moved to Florida and she started attending a new school. Woodley developed the Friendship Bench as a place that children of all ages could go to if they were being picked on or bullied, are new to school and don’t know anyone, or they’re just having a bad day. Other children would then know that child needs a friend. “Every bench is different and unique, just like all of the children who use them. That’s what makes them special,” Woodley said. “Acacia’s story is amazing,” said Tom Schneider, President of Silica For Your Home. “My goal is to eventually have a Friendship Bench in every Fond du Lac Elementary School.” After the four benches are unveiled in the schools this week, there will be a total of eight benches that have been donated to Fond du Lac and North Fond du Lac Elementary Schools by Silica For Your Home, The Fond du Lac Evening Optimist Club, and Envision Greater Fond du Lac.
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