Photo Essay
For my photo essay I chose to write about my Adopt-a-Family for National Honor Society. Every year in Honor Society each house is assigned a family in need by Mrs. Boone. In our house we have one or two leaders who sign up as the leader to run Adopt-a-Family and since I’ve participated with this the past two years I wanted to actually be a leader this year. So luckily I was selected along with my partner Kylie to run our house’s Adopt-a-Family.
We received a family of seven total! She is a single mother and she also gave birth last month! To get things started first we had to call the family and schedule a date of delivery which is Saturday, December 12 at 3 pm. Next our house leader sent out pictures of the forms with the family’s information, details, and gift requests on them to our whole house so everyone knew what was needed for this family. The following weekend I went out shopping with my mom as well as my mom’s friend and we managed to buy 2- 5 outfits for all of the kids,binkies,baby blanket,PJs as well as pots and pans for the mother and a nice robe she asked for. My partner went out and bought the teenager daughter a sweater outfit and the teenage son a nice sweater. After sending out several emails we received $80 donations and a $20 target gift card! I scheduled a “wrapping party” where everyone from my house came to Mrs. Boone’s room after school Thursday and we wrapped everything and make it look festive and the best part was we all got an hour of community service!
Even though I had already gone out and had +25 items my mom and I thought it would be a cute idea to go and buy some things that would be the family’s stocking. So we ended up getting a Sorry! board game, a Scooby Doo movie disk with the first and second movie, a jumbo chalk pack, a movie package that comes with a bucket /3 bags of popcorn/ and two packs of candy, and finally we bought additional Christmas themed candy so everyone could enjoy a treat during the movie! Hopefully everything will go smoothly and we’ll make this a perfect Christmas that this family truly deserves and there’s nothing better than that. Over all this has been a very interesting project to lead because I got to manage nearly 30 people and plan certain days of activities which was a first however it taught me some great leadership skills that I’ll use throughout my life. I can’t wait to see their smiling faces when we get to be Santa.
Pictures from Adopt-a-Family
