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Rotary Red Bags

Presented By: Peace Island

Kara Matthew

Natalie Kadence

Harper Adeline

Chloe Sophia

Lauren Ladarieuss

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Counselors: Katie and Eric

Original art by Ladarieuss

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Peace Islanders

Kara Matthew

Natalie Kadence

Harper Adeline

Chloe Sophia

Lauren Ladarieuss

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Counselors: Katie and Eric

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Our Team’s Passion Turned Mission

  • Provide necessities for homeless people.
  • Hand out red backpacks filled with toiletries, socks, water bottles, flyers with local resources, etc…
  • Form connections with our community.
  • Help lessen the burden on our neighbors.

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Homelessness in St. Louis

This project is able to shed light on our passion to serve the homeless community in our areas.

Shared by FOX2 Local News, 606 people in the St.Louis County area are homeless.

This project would really be able to impact those in need in our communities as well as encourage others around the nation to take action to help theirs as well.

The Office of Policy Development And Research shows that 582,562 people across the United States are homeless in 2022 alone.

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Service Project Requirements

  • Combination of money and time donations.
  • Best suits our project because we need funding to buy the items and people to help distribute them.

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Helping Hands�

We would like to partner with The Spirit of Saint Louis County Rotary Club, Florissant Rotary Club, our NHS, Student Council, and Interact clubs from our high schools and local food pantries for future necessities and relationships within their community.

With the help of Rotary‘s funds we can purchase the items we need to provide to people in need.

The team, including volunteers from local high schools in St. Louis, will work together to get the bags packed and delivered.

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Bare Necessities

People Resources:

Volunteers from our NHS, student council, and Interact clubs. Spirit of Saint Louis County Rotary Club and Florissant Rotary Club, and community members that just want to help.

Technology Resources:

Marketing on social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram.

Building Resources:

Somewhere to store the bag essentials. We intend to ask the Spirit of Saint Louis County Rotary to allow us to store the bags in their buildings.

Transportation Resources:

Cars or other vehicles to deliver the bags to the people. These will be the personal cars of volunteers.

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Logistics

  • $2210 for 500 backpacks.
  • Meet with St. Louis area Rotary Clubs to pitch our project and ask for sponsorship.
  • 500 backpacks to start.

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Individual Costs

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Timeline

  • Rotary Red Bags is an ongoing project.
  • We would start ordering and collecting items 6 weeks before the distribution date.
  • Volunteers assemble bags starting 2 weeks before distribution.
  • Distribution of bags in April and October.
  • Ongoing project with the intent of increasing scaling. We would continue the project until there isn't a need for it.

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Getting the Word Out

  1. Social Media Marketing
    1. Almost everyone has and uses social media like Facebook and Instagram.
    2. Try to get attention from news broadcasting by contacting them and asking for coverage of our project.
  2. Flyers
    • Gives a creative way to inform about our project
    • Put them up around the community in libraries, food pantries, churches, and other places they could be seen by the homeless community.
  3. Networking
    • Talk to Spirit of Saint Louis County Rotary Club, St. Patrick Center, and Loaves and Fishes of St. Louis to propose collaboration.

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Peace Island Thanks You

Thank you to the Rotary for listening to our idea and all their help and consideration into our project.

Thank you to the volunteers for their time and effort in helping pass out the Red Rotary Bags.

And to everyone that donated items to the Red Rotary Bags thank you for sacrificing your time and money to help people in need.

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