Westcoast Connection / 360° Student Travel
This summer, Dare to Care was blessed to have students from Westcoast Connection’s 360° Student Travel help raise awareness about childhood hunger.
With their help, we conducted one day camps at both the Eagle River and Muldoon Boys & Girls Clubs.
There were three different groups of students and all three thought up their own fundraising ideas and solicited donations for the needed materials and whatever leg work was need for the event.
Truly, “Kids helping kids.” All money was donated to the Dare to Care school lunch program.
The first group spent the day at the Anchorage Visitor’s Cabin on 4th Avenue taking donations and making a mural of the “helping hands” of the donors and noting where they were from. We ended up with handprints representing people from 40 different countries and states such as Fiji, Switzerland, Mexico, Australia, England and many more.
We also had three dogs stamp their imprint to fight childhood hunger. Truly a man’s best friend!
The second group made Dare to Care buttons at the Boys & Girls camp and sold them at the Saturday Market in Anchorage. The kids were amazing suffering through the rain and not losing sight of their personal and group goal.
Many thanks to their friends and family back home who also donated to the program.
The third group participated in a walkathon where they walked down the entire length of Northern Lights starting at Muldoon and finishing at Earthquake Park. The walk encompassed over 10 miles and the kids were exhausted but confident they helped bring awareness to the problem and money to help expand the program.
To learn more about student summer travel opportunities, visit Westcoast Connection and the 360° Student Travel.
To see more photos of Westcoast Connection's 2008 Alaska work, visit these photo albums:
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