The Clothing Drive continues...

Today we decided to kick our clothing drive up a notch, and found an excellent way to get the word across campus. We consulted our RCHS counselor, Mrs. Westmoreland, and she agreed to send out a faculty e-mail containing information about our charity. Due to the campus weather closings, we have decided to extend the deadline for our clothing drive. As of now we have collected over three large bags of clothing from various classmates, and are extremely optimistic about the future. We have also done a photo session, in order to obtain pictures that would be appropriate for our website, which is currently under construction, and should be up and running by mid April. We have also held many group meetings in order to discuss future events, and various ways in which we could obtain more supporters. Our main struggle right now is raising awareness about our charity projects, and getting our classmates motivated and involved. We want to get as many of our peers on board as possible, in order to make our projects an even greater success. Right now we are at the prime stages of developing a community wide Earth Day event, which will enable RCHS students to gain volunteer hours. We realize that by creating an event that promises students service learning hours, we would be able to gather a much larger group of motivated individuals. We have also been tracking our progress, and are extremely proud of where we are right now. Although we do wish to begin working on much larger projects, we know that all good things start small.

CLOTHING DRIVE

As many of you know the weather has been really rough lately, and due to school closings we were unable to set up donation boxes on the 1st as planned! Our charity clothing drive will begin on the 3rd of February, and continue trough the entire month. We are extremely excited about our latest project, and hope to make it a successful event which will benefit our community. I want to remind everyone to please bring at least one item of clothing. Every individual has the opportunity to make a difference, even the smallest act of kindness has the capability of setting off a positive chain of events. Since our classes are now in full swing we are trying our hardest to keep our charity work going, and our blog updated. If you haven't already, please follow us on twitter, and Facebook were you can find further information on our organization and latest expenditures. Remember there is power in numbers, and we cannot accomplish this without you guys! On thursday we plan on talking to our advisor Mrs.Westmoreland, regarding advertisements for our clothing drive. We hope to get an ad in the College newspaper, and perhaps even a shoutout on the local radio channel. We hope to start this clothing drive off strong, and raise over 600 articles of clothing. Although we are starting small, we hope to one day expand charity days into an organization that has the power to create significant change, not only in our community, but throughout the nation. A wise women once said, "We can do no great things, only small things with great love."  ~Mother Teresa
***wish us luck!

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