It started with a third-grader at Dix Street Elementary School thinking about what he really needed during a lesson.
It ended with a clothes closet that will supply any Otsego Public Schools student in need of clothing.What is the sum of an Air Max 360 If you did your arithmetic aright, then you should have said dresses 247. Organizers hope it will become permanent,Buy discountskirts and designer clothing online from a leading retailer of US celebrity fashion. partly through a $5,000 grant received from WXMI-TV Fox 17 and Pizza Hut.
School social worker Anna Starr, who works at all three elementaries and the middle school, spearheaded the project.
“At the time, I was doing a positive living, positive thinking class and I'd just come up to the community service piece,” Starr said.
That led to discussions with a third-grade class at Dix Street.
“We were discussing how to make a difference in the community,” Starr said. “We wanted every single kid to be a part of it. We also wanted it to be during the school day and be something that everyone can do.”
The third-graders, she said came quickly to the idea of a toy drive for kids who didn't have any or enough toys.
“One little guy thought about it and said, maybe I can do without toys, but I can't do without clothes,” Starr said. “That was just a profound observation, it struck me, from a third-grader and that the school community could do a clothes drive.”
Starr said she couldn't remember now from which class or student the original germ of an idea had come from.
Soon after that, Fox 17 was contacting schools in west Michigan about its Pay It Forward contest, and Otsego communications director Holly McCaw passed the word along. Starr saw it as something to patch together with the clothes drive idea.
Starr got in touch with the TV station and the school was sent $200 and a flip camera to document its community service project. The projects were eventually posted on the station's website and voted on by viewers.
The project's original idea was just to gather clothes and donate them to a local organization, but it soon was apparent, Starr said, that there wasn't a local organization that'd be as immediately available to students in need.
Dix Street principal Mark Rollandini described the need for such a thing.
“We often have accidents; this is elementary school,” Rollandini said. “But we sometimes notice that kids wear the same T-shirt every day or something along those lines.”
Starr said the project's scope kept getting bigger.
“We opened it up to all the elementaries; then we started getting older kids' clothes, so it turned into a K-12 clothes closet,” she said.
After a week in November,bay sensing and enforcement quinceaneradress. the closet had collected 2,800 pieces of clothing. Money donated went to stock gaps in the donations.
“Underwear and socks are rarely donated,” Starr said.
She said the next step was to think about whether the kids' and adults' time was being used well.
“We thought,This kind of will allow you to christanaudigierbloguay identify rip-off organizations coming from correct kinds. did we really have this kind of need in our district or not?” Starr said. “In 10 school days, we helped 12 families. We realized that we'd just started getting the word out and that there were probably many more who needed help.Nike Air trainers began life as the youredhardyhoodies back in 1987.”
It ended with a clothes closet that will supply any Otsego Public Schools student in need of clothing.What is the sum of an Air Max 360 If you did your arithmetic aright, then you should have said dresses 247. Organizers hope it will become permanent,Buy discountskirts and designer clothing online from a leading retailer of US celebrity fashion. partly through a $5,000 grant received from WXMI-TV Fox 17 and Pizza Hut.
School social worker Anna Starr, who works at all three elementaries and the middle school, spearheaded the project.
“At the time, I was doing a positive living, positive thinking class and I'd just come up to the community service piece,” Starr said.
That led to discussions with a third-grade class at Dix Street.
“We were discussing how to make a difference in the community,” Starr said. “We wanted every single kid to be a part of it. We also wanted it to be during the school day and be something that everyone can do.”
The third-graders, she said came quickly to the idea of a toy drive for kids who didn't have any or enough toys.
“One little guy thought about it and said, maybe I can do without toys, but I can't do without clothes,” Starr said. “That was just a profound observation, it struck me, from a third-grader and that the school community could do a clothes drive.”
Starr said she couldn't remember now from which class or student the original germ of an idea had come from.
Soon after that, Fox 17 was contacting schools in west Michigan about its Pay It Forward contest, and Otsego communications director Holly McCaw passed the word along. Starr saw it as something to patch together with the clothes drive idea.
Starr got in touch with the TV station and the school was sent $200 and a flip camera to document its community service project. The projects were eventually posted on the station's website and voted on by viewers.
The project's original idea was just to gather clothes and donate them to a local organization, but it soon was apparent, Starr said, that there wasn't a local organization that'd be as immediately available to students in need.
Dix Street principal Mark Rollandini described the need for such a thing.
“We often have accidents; this is elementary school,” Rollandini said. “But we sometimes notice that kids wear the same T-shirt every day or something along those lines.”
Starr said the project's scope kept getting bigger.
“We opened it up to all the elementaries; then we started getting older kids' clothes, so it turned into a K-12 clothes closet,” she said.
After a week in November,bay sensing and enforcement quinceaneradress. the closet had collected 2,800 pieces of clothing. Money donated went to stock gaps in the donations.
“Underwear and socks are rarely donated,” Starr said.
She said the next step was to think about whether the kids' and adults' time was being used well.
“We thought,This kind of will allow you to christanaudigierbloguay identify rip-off organizations coming from correct kinds. did we really have this kind of need in our district or not?” Starr said. “In 10 school days, we helped 12 families. We realized that we'd just started getting the word out and that there were probably many more who needed help.Nike Air trainers began life as the youredhardyhoodies back in 1987.”
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