NOTE: THE PILL CONTAINER PROGRAM HAS ENDED.
Plantation, Florida … Today young people are more aware of the world than ever before, and the needs of people in distant places are being confronted by those well below the age to vote or drive a car. Such is the case with 7-year-old Gabriela, a student at the Imagine Charter School in Plantation, Florida. Recently her mother Carolina gave her daughter information about the Malawi Project and the needs of the people of Malawi. Gabriela went to her laptop and started learning about the Malawi Project. She wanted to help and decided the pill vial program would be her beginning point. She decided to go to her classmates to ask for pill vials and first aid supplies to send to the Malawi Project. Her mother notes Gabriela is a quiet, reserved child but she mustered the courage to approach her principal, Mrs. Ethiel Calvo of Imagine Charter. She was given a positive response for the program and the school started getting behind the project.
Gabriela and her father prepared a short video and the school broadcast it during morning announcements. A flyer was sent home with every child. Contests were started between classes to see who could gather the most pill containers, and a large poster was placed in the lobby of the school with a graph to show the progress of the program. Large numbers of pill containers and first aid supplies are beginning to flow into the school from excited and committed young people.
As this program progresses her mother Carolina reports, “…goodness trickles down even to the youngest in our communities and even children can make a difference. The example the Malawi Project is setting by putting together such a worthy effort is something beyond any words I could even come up with. These children are getting a good lesson in what it is to give to those in need.”
Pictured are her teacher Mrs. Hegarty and Gabriela in front of the school lobby bulletin board showing progress by the different classes in the pill container campaign.