My children were so curious and intrigued by the devastation from the tornadoes that ripped through our state in late April, that I decided it was a learning opportunity for them to learn to be compassionate to those who are in need and help in any way we can. For children, it is hard to help in these kind of situations, but we came up with a wonderful idea. We decided to help collect toys, crayons, coloring books, books, etc. to put in small individual bags to distribute to children in shelters and devastated areas. We had a very enthusiastic group of children help stuff the bags one afternoon after school. We were able to put together 450 bags and picked up another 80 bags from a sweet neighboring church and delivered them to the Pleasant Grove area. These are some pictures from our efforts. There is still SO MUCH help needed, but at least we were able to give some smiles to some really wonderful children.
Some of our worker bees!
My car....packed to the gills!
This picture and the ones following are of only one small section of a road in Pleasant Grove. Driving through this area was overwhelming, the destruction was really awful and really don't show in these pictures.
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