Today was the Havasu Health Walk Challenge the kids teamed up with to help put on the 5k get on
your feet.
The kids got there 90 minutes early to help set up with race organizer’s …also they were collecting shoes for their November project and collecting all the used water bottles to turn over to the girl scouts. Oh and they were all walking also….
Yes…and Project Give kids took 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in the 5K!
We first had to get all the students out of there shells – it was easy when we started these 5 rules….
1) Make eye contact with everyone they meet
2) Smile
3) Shake hands
4) Introduce yourself first and last name clearly.
5) Tell everyone you meet about our project and its goals
They made their own theme: NOT REQUIRED.
We include those things you do that extend beyond your own home and classroom into the real world. They are not required, you don’t have to do them. You do them selflessly, to improve the quality of life around you. The world is chock-full of real problems to solve – things that need attention isn’t it exciting for you that all these problems haven’t already been solved?
It is exciting that you’ll create your own history with the actions you take. As you reach out to solve problem’s in your community, you’ll be helping to design a better future. You’ll also be learning to take charge of your personal life.
We have a list of civic leaders and business leaders in our community that we felt could help us in our projects. We have a thank you letter drafted by the kids to be sent after anyone helps us right after a project letting them know what’s next.
The challenge is to teach them how to give back to their community and lead by example so others will want to be a part of this movement.
By creating a mission statement everyone knows who we are what we are doing and what our goals are which will then spill over into these future community volunteers lives now. This in turn will get them to write their own mission statements and goals that will include giving back and at that point the circle will be complete… and without even knowing it at first their lives have taken on a new meaning.
It is awesome to watch…
We held our first meeting today at Daytona middle School..They finally came up with the idea that for years the school has been planning to build an outdoor Volleyball court and every year money falls through the ground … the site sits right next to the batting cages they built with the wrong materials and for 2 years have sat in disrepair.
So the idea is to take that whole area and start with fixing the batting cages and having a re-grand opening of them and inviting all the kids to come and try them..
During the grand opening of the batting cages they had several ideas on fundraising that day and will be inviting the Mayor, the school Board President, and other local dignitaries at which time the kids will give a presentation and an offer to partner up with us to see this goal completed. Also they are all thinking who can help with this. I gave each of them an assignment to find the name, email and phone number of someone who we want to help us. (Like the Mayor, the chamber President, and so on.)
They were really excited and are working on our mission statement and more ideas to keep this going and how to get more kids involved.
