I want to fill you in on our efforts at Wellsburg Middle School. On Monday I approached our principal to ask if I could run a spring service project and gave her a little background. We called our 440 students to the auditorium after lunch. I explained about the 100 million people living on the ground. I showed the video. Then I set our goal at 20 wheelchairs... one per homeroom.  We started collecting immediately and by Tuesday morning, we had raised enough to cover 10 chairs! The 6th grade teacher had been selling gumballs all year to purchase snacks for our students during our state testing, but our kids told us the chairs were more important, they could bring their own snacks and the gumball money should be donated to the Free Wheelchair Mission. Our fine arts teachers are sponsoring an ice cream sundae sale during our lunches today - Friday.  Our home-economics teacher is organizing a teacher luncheon to help raise money as well.  

Our students are seeing how good it feels to help another human being. When I left last Friday, we were just under 44 chairs. The kids keep raising our goal. Now they're shooting for 50!  We feel so good about being part of this project.”