Share & Voice: Hearts For Haiti

So this may not be quite as "environmentally friendly" but it was still as huge experience and something important to me.  Last year, when the Earthquake in Haiti took place, it really stuck with that I needed to do something to help.  Here were these helpless people, their entire country taken away from them...Whether they wanted the help or not (I heard stories from my friends in the military who went there & were not gracefully accepted) I wanted to have some part in doing something for someone.  With the help of fellow ESG (Eta Sigma Gamma) Members who took action.  With money out of my own pocket I bought supplies to make ribbon pins and fun hershey kiss roses to sell.  It was around Valentines Day and they were a big hit!  We sold every single one of those roses that we put together.  Plus, there was a few random kind people who just wanted to donate money.  In the end, from a small little craft, we raised $501!  We donated the money to the American Red Cross here in Duluth, who was already a part of the recovery in Haiti.  It was a fun bonding time and something good we can all share together now knowing that we did our best to help those people we will never know.