Week 8: Raising Awareness

     Raising Awareness!

   This week we worked on getting the word out! In the past we told you about all the ideas we had brainstormed, but this week we chose to work on the flyers. We wanted to make our flyers pop, so we added lots of fancy fonts and colors. Now all we have to do is hang them up and wait for them to get noticed!
    That´s not all! Our group wound up splitting in two, so the other half of our group worked on inspirational messages and quotes to staple onto the Kare Kits. We want to inspire the homeless so that they don´t feel unhappy... I mean everyone deserves to be happy!


~Christina

Week 7: Torture The Teacher

Sending emails to pretty much all the teachers in our middle can take a while. But it will be worth it when they agree to our plan...no it's not evil, well not quite. We are having a fundraiser called torture the teacher,You may ask who even came up with that? You're answer is, everyone in our group. We thought it will be a great eye catcher when the student hear about it and who doesn't like to do that. We are brainstorming ideas for the dares that our lovely teachers might do. Depends if they can take it. I think they will, we only have some ideas like dying their hair and shaving their hair, and don't worry it wont get worst I do not promise you that. What? don't make promises you might not keep. Taught you a lesson right there.   Anyways that what we did for the week. In a while there will be part two of Torture The Teacher. Have a great day! 

Week 6: Falling Into Place

Falling Into Place

Hello! So this week all our plans, preparations, and ideas are starting to work out. We have officially decided what to put into our Kare Kits, the bags that we will be donating to shelters. We have contacted one specific shelter to accept these donation and kits. And our fundraiser for our school is still in progress, but we have so many fun ideas for it! This week was to take a step back and plan all our goals out. We have so many things going on at once, that it can be very hectic! We hope that in two weeks time everything will be ready to go and the community will start noticing our mission. We want to get as many people as aware because in order to solve an issue, you have to be and remain informed. Anyways that is all for this week and I hope you come back next week to read about our further progress!

-Martin

(An idea of the items that may be in our Kare Kits)

Week 5: Planning our ideas

Hi, so this week we are planning and organizing our ideas to reach out and help people that are homeless. We are trying to reach out to the shelters and thinking of what we need to do to help them out. We are planning our ideas of making care kits and putting them in a bag to send them to the homeless shelter and when there are homeless people in the shelter they could pick one up. In the care kits we could put the nesseceties that are nessecary like toilet trees and these care kits would help them. Before we made a go fund me account you could donate if you would like too.

These are some of the care kits of the products we could put in. We love giving back to others.

                                

                                                                                 -Anna :)

Week 4: Ideas, Ideas, Ideas

    Ideas, Ideas, Ideas

    This week our main purpose was to focus on two things. First of all we worked on coming up with a plan to figure out what we want to use the money we are raising for. After a very effective group discussion, we decided on making blessing bags. There are great homeless shelters in our area providing the homeless with the food they need but what about the necessities that they need to use everyday? When you think about someone who is homeless, most likely the first thought that crosses your mind is that they need food. While this is indeed true, that is definitely not all they need! They are people just like us who need lots of the same items that we use each and every day. Just some of them being; toothpaste, toothbrushes, mints, socks, shampoo, chapstick, combs, and bandages. 

    Secondly, we worked on adding ideas to our list of fundraising ideas. I mean with all these blessing bags we plan to make, we will sure need some money to help! Lucky for us fundraising can be extremely fun! Well... that is unless you´re the leaders of our group who we plan to hold an event where students can pay to ¨torture¨ them. We will have different ideas such as dying their hair or dressing up as a clown for the day. Then, anyone who wants to participate will be able to pay $1 to vote on their favorite form of ¨torture.¨

 Don´t forget to come back next week to see how our blessing bags turn out!

~Christina

P.S. Our GoFundMe is doing great! We are already at $315... so keep those donations coming because they are really helping!

GoFundMe Link

Link to GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/mtnckm8c

Week 3: Reaching Out

Reaching Out

               Have you ever seen flyers at a local area in town, that appeal to you for its purpose and appearance? You look at it once, and immediately take interest in it! Well, we've realized that this actually does not happen often as people are busy in their daily routine's and own schedules, and don't really care to notice their surroundings. We have all been guilty of this, but myself and my team members want to change this. This following week at Holmes Heroes, we will be making and distributing flyers to get others outside of this club aware about the issue of local homelessness. My group members have come up with ideas like handing out flyers, producing a video for our school's announcements, and many more to reach out to people and get them aware. Our goal is to come up with interesting approaches, so that people do take their time to notice our cause and take some time to learn about it! We do realize this will be a tad difficult, but we're up for the challenge! 

           Additionally, with the help of other students and teachers we have even made a GoFundMe account where people can donate to our cause and raise money. This GoFundMe, will be handled by our club supervisors, and will solely be used for our cause. Also, we did not get much of an answer from the shelter we had contacted next week, but we did get more than enough knowledge and factual information on local homelessness, that we are now prepared to take action! We can't wait until our flyers and poster are designed, as we hope to show them next week! Overall, our main job this week was to come up with ways for others be aware and support us in our cause. This is because when more people are aware, the more people there are to acknowledge and better this issue. We want to reach out to everyone, going from students, teachers, and adults! We can't wait to create the flyers, videos, and posters and we hope that next week you'll be reading to see and share our hard work!

                                                                                                                           -Sofia