This is what we learned from Melissa during her speech:
In the past 10 years, this is HPHS Interact Club:
- Over 500 HPHS students “SPEAKING THE LANGUAGE OF SERVICE”
- Approximately 150 families/children with serious/sometimes terminal medical conditions (Ronald McDonald House)
- Over 600 Special Olympics Athletes (Special Olympics Floor Hockey and Basketball Tournament)
- The families of the above 600 Special Olympics Athletes (Special Olympics Floor Hockey and Basketball Tournament)
- Over 700 Members of our US Military Personnel Overseas (Military Troop Care Package Drive)
- Over 1500 kids without access to books (Bernie’s Books)
- Over 2000 children without access to food (Feed My Starving Children)
- 150 children at Lurie Children’s Hospital (Letters of Hope)
- 50 families at St. James Church (Dinners with Dignity)
APPROX. 6000 lives that were touched by just our service projects alone!
And that doesn’t even include the almost $120,000 we raised for Special Olympics with our Polar Plunges, the $3000 we raised for MS research, and the $1500 we raised for PADS. That fundraising impacted thousands more people, as well.
And THAT is the POWER OF YOUTH SERVICE!