…What you do
Share your ideas on how you make your program a success. Some really creative things are done to help bolster your program and all of the other participants would love to hear about them. Don’t forget to include pics if they add to the story.
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Maggi Alexander | March 6, 2008 at 2:00 am
I have been sending our recycled items to cartridges for kids for almost four years. We use the money to support my sister’s project in Zambia, Africa. She has started a school for children that are orphaned or are too poor to afford an education. She has created a program for widowed women and grandmothers but our money helps feed about 300 children one meal a day. We have also sent $1,000 to get health cards so that these orphans can go to a clinic for a year. We have recently sent $400 to help build a third grade classroom for this school. And we send an additional $100 a month to pay for one of the teacher’s salary.
We also sent $1,000 to a school in Galveston, Texas after Katrina.
We hold contests each year, advertise in the local papers about our program, and collect our items in obvious places such as the middle school, town hall and library. We also ask for support in our newsletters that go home each month. Contests are the most successful, but I also find that having boxes in these areas are great. We also have a local TV system that advertises local news, we have a slide on that also.
This program has changed the lives of many of my students. They have not only realized that recycling is important but that they can make a difference. Earlier this month, I was honored to be nominated as an Ordinary Hero by a former student. She mentioned that what we were doing in class, with our recycling program, helped her become a more aware and caring person.