Soleil Food Drive

Food drive!

By Emillee & Athmar

  Our food drive was held from April 20-25th. Our goal for the Soleil classroom was 60 cans! The organization we are donating the food too is Northwest Harvest. We came up with the idea by seeing the poor and thinking what  can we do. As I was once told, “You can make a difference by stopping to thinking”. We thought this was important to Soleil because it showed them that even the littlest cans to the biggest package of cans counts in someone else's life! 

The first day was exactly what we expected. 0 cans. We were ok with that because it was only the first day and we knew we could do it after a reminder. Then the second day came and we still had 0 cans. We were a little surprised but we still had time so we were still thinking good thoughts.. Then when the 3 day came rolling around we still had 0 cans. Emillee and I were getting kinda anxious for those cans. But we sent out an email and a reminder to all parents and students! 

Progress chart at the end of the day Wednesday.

Cans at the end of the day Wednesday.

Then the 4th day came and we had about 25-30 cans in the box! We reminded the kids what the purpose was and what we expected one more time! 

Chart at the end of the day Thursday. 

Cans at the end of the day Thursday.

Then the last day came out and hit us in the face! We had a big turnout. We reached 49 cans by the morning. We still did not reach our goal though. 

Amount of cans at the beginning of school on Friday.

But some kids came in late and brought 52 cans total! We then reached 96 cans!! We definitely reached our goal and passed it big time!  

All 92 cans! 

We made our goal!

We were very happy about our big turn out! Something that was challenging was that the cans came in really late and that got us really scared and a little mad that the kids were not participating in this important event. We learned that this was a lot of hard work. We both thought if we had the idea in our head, then everything would go perfectly. That didn't really happen. 

We have not dropped off the food yet. We will drop it off at the end of the school year. Emillee is keeping the cans until the end of the semester at her place to collect more cans from family, shopping, and friends to get a greater amount of cans!

We hope that you participate in the next food drive!