I suppose since our orange did it I might as well too..... Thanks a lot Mel
Call me Vexie or Pete which ever you prefer, and I've been a part of the GSA/club for change for four years now, and up until the start of this year I was more of a passive member seeing as I was pretty much a junior member. Now that I'm a senior like member and the group is far more fearless about fund raising ideas, I'm not afraid to put my twenty-two cents in.
In previous years we've been mostly about bake sales and pep rallies, minor stuff compared to our work now, if I do say so my self, now we aren't afraid to think big and stive for something bigger, to effectively take on more than we can chew but still choke it down and geterdone. We are no longer a group that fears what others will think but stand up for those who do fear what others think.
I hope that those both in and out of our school will be willing to help, whether it's ideas or advice or even just a good luck as we take on a n project.
Forever blue, forever be you
Vexie
Monday, March 7, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
HOWDY Y'ALL!
This is Mel (a.k.a. The Orange Rainbow Ranger) checking in! Just posting to say my little tid bit about the Club for Change and our mission (Gosh that sounds so cheesy). I, actually, just joined the club this school year, though the former name of the Gay-Straight Alliance was a constant circling name around the school. To chicken to even attend I bucked up my courage and stuck it to the sticking place this year after finding out a fellow friend was in it. I attended once and haven't missed a meeting intentionally since.
During my time attending the Club has done what it could, every month we try and host a fundraiser or at least try and promote awareness for some cause or another. Several of our famous go's have been 'Buy a paper moustache', the 'Anti-Bullying Campaign' and our promotion of self awareness and acceptance of society. However our most genius idea was our Christmas Campaign.
Together the club rustled up a Christmas tree (The old fake one from my basement! Haha, at least it was life size.), glitter, and silver Christmas ornaments. We sat and sold the bobbles for $2 a piece in our rotunda, with full profits going to world vision to buy impoverished families two chickens and a rooster. Boy where we so happy when it actually took off. Sadly, our society is not a giving one and out fundraisers end up costing us money to host, but this time we raised 190-ish dollars and was able to buy two families a possible start out of the hole they were born in.
And now were embarking on an entirely new journey. The Brick by Brick campaign. Come on Carlton, we've cleared the first step by getting it approved by the SLC, lets go even farther by actually raising the money and building a school so that some kids no longer have to live the life of poverty.
Tata,
Mel
During my time attending the Club has done what it could, every month we try and host a fundraiser or at least try and promote awareness for some cause or another. Several of our famous go's have been 'Buy a paper moustache', the 'Anti-Bullying Campaign' and our promotion of self awareness and acceptance of society. However our most genius idea was our Christmas Campaign.
Together the club rustled up a Christmas tree (The old fake one from my basement! Haha, at least it was life size.), glitter, and silver Christmas ornaments. We sat and sold the bobbles for $2 a piece in our rotunda, with full profits going to world vision to buy impoverished families two chickens and a rooster. Boy where we so happy when it actually took off. Sadly, our society is not a giving one and out fundraisers end up costing us money to host, but this time we raised 190-ish dollars and was able to buy two families a possible start out of the hole they were born in.
And now were embarking on an entirely new journey. The Brick by Brick campaign. Come on Carlton, we've cleared the first step by getting it approved by the SLC, lets go even farther by actually raising the money and building a school so that some kids no longer have to live the life of poverty.
Tata,
Mel
Thursday, March 3, 2011
The plan
How do we plan to do this....
You're probably thinking that as high school student we won't reach our goal, am I right? But that's were you're wrong, if elementary school kids can do it so can we. We won't back down, the members of the club for change aren't quitters, we have plenty of ideas that include teacher auctions, game contests, and bake sales. Now I know that doesn't sound like much but I don't want to be giving out all of our ideas at the moment.
As high school students we are very open minded and we will prevail in this, after all people shouldn't be with out education, no matter where you live.
You're probably thinking that as high school student we won't reach our goal, am I right? But that's were you're wrong, if elementary school kids can do it so can we. We won't back down, the members of the club for change aren't quitters, we have plenty of ideas that include teacher auctions, game contests, and bake sales. Now I know that doesn't sound like much but I don't want to be giving out all of our ideas at the moment.
As high school students we are very open minded and we will prevail in this, after all people shouldn't be with out education, no matter where you live.
Introduction
Who are we?
We are a group of high school students wanting to make a change for the better in the world, from awareness about different diseases to helping raise funds for people to go to other countries to get life altering surgeries. Our goal is to change the world for the better. Currently in the second semester of this school year we a lady have big plans and hope to top what we did last semester. Last semester we raised funds to send our founding members father over seas to get surgery for his MS and through world vision we bought chickens and roosters for families that would need them. This semester we plan to raise 15,000 dollars to help build a school in a third world country so they too can be educated like us here who are lucky enough to have it provided.
We are a group of high school students wanting to make a change for the better in the world, from awareness about different diseases to helping raise funds for people to go to other countries to get life altering surgeries. Our goal is to change the world for the better. Currently in the second semester of this school year we a lady have big plans and hope to top what we did last semester. Last semester we raised funds to send our founding members father over seas to get surgery for his MS and through world vision we bought chickens and roosters for families that would need them. This semester we plan to raise 15,000 dollars to help build a school in a third world country so they too can be educated like us here who are lucky enough to have it provided.
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