Reflection Up to Donation

Donating to help the animals in our community that are in need of help was a topic we came to pretty quickly. We wanted to do something more than just go through and donate what we could from our own houses so we organized drives and, in order to reach out to and help a multitude of animals, we contacted approximately eight shelters about their needs. This was a challenge for us because we realized that we had to get enough to donate to all shelters. Our goal was to help animals in need and benefit our community by taking things that may otherwise would have been waste. To do this, we stayed in contact with multiple people, organized drives for our former schools, and reached out to our community with announcements. Although we have not started organizing all the proceeds, by looking at what we did receive, we are afraid we won’t have very much for each shelter. Unfortunately two of our former schools were unable to host drives for us so that obviously set us back. From Crossroads, the school that did run a drive, we got three large bags of material which now makes up the bulk of our donations. We will be able to finish up in just a few weeks as we get all the toys made and organize what material is going where. Finally we will drop off all our proceeds at the shelters. We are especially looking forward to that final step of the project. Throughout these past few months, we have learned that time management is super important. After we had finished talking to all the shelters and reaching out to possible contributors, we feel that we got a little off task. There was more work that could be done outside of the classroom than there was to do confined to the use of our computers. The proceeds are stacked high and we have not started sorting them. After-school hours spent on this project are definitely going to have to come to pass if we are going to get all our proceeds out before school ends. On top of time management, we also learned to compensate for people who could not follow through. We got quite good at coming up with different ways to contact people and people to contact. If we did this project again, we would probably give more guidance to the schools and organizations we asked to run drives for us. Maybe if they had an outline for how to run the drive, more of them would have participated. The next step in our project is to make the toys and deliver them. We plan to make our first delivery this Saturday and are extremely excited for it!