MLK Service Day, for the United Way of York County, was a success! Originally, we had 25-30 people signed up to participate and ended up having 51 people show up and some were nice enough to bring donations. Our project for that day was to create care packets for the Bell Family Shelter. 113 packets were made. We also had arts and craft activities for younger ones that included coloring "Get Well" cards for children at York Hospital. I would like to thank everyone who attended and participated in this event. I would also like to thank Northeastern High School for their donation drive for which they collected the toiletries we desperately needed and they also collected $55 in monetary donations towards our event.
However, the event in Hanover was not so successful. I only had 6 students and 3 adults participate in the event. However, they did create 32 care packets for the Hanover Area Council of Churches homeless shelter. The students were from the Southwestern School District.
I wish we could have had more participation and donations towards our service project, overall, however, I am very, very grateful for the turnout we did get. For 2009, my goal is to try to increase the number of community participation and donations for our 2010 event. I would like to thank the reporters and photographers from the York Daily Record, York Dispatch and Evening Sun who came out to report on our event and future events. We, for some reason, could not get the media attention we needed for this project and I am very grateful for the media coverage we did get today from the local papers.
If anyone, at anytime, would like to make any type of donation towards this project we would greatly appreciate it. We can take donations anytime throughout the year for the next MLK event. To me, MLK Service Day is not only about people helping people, but also about people being able to witness, first-hand, how important volunteering is to their community and the positive impact it can have on everyone.
