Aiding the Helpless

Build It I have been working on designing my project for about 3 years. Since elementary school I have wanted to do a big project to raise money for the Humane Society. The first thing I did was write down my ideas. Then in fifth grade I actually did a mini project. I sold popcorn, cookies, and Kool-Aid at Festival Foods and I made over $100. I really liked the feeling of donating that money to the animals so I decided I wanted to do it again. I never had time, until I was enrolled in How to Save the World. When I heard that we were going to do service projects I jumped for joy. That was the perfect time to once again, raise money for the animals. I started to plan out in my head what I wanted to do. I decided that I wanted to do the same project, because it was fun, and I planned most of it out already. Some of the problems I faced when I did the project before could have ruined everything. First, we couldn’t find the animal shaped cookie cutters, and we panicked. Once we found them we thought that everything would work out fine. Then, we couldn’t find the place that sells the popcorn oil and seeds that my cousins use for their popcorn machine. Once we found that we were on our way. We had all of the food and drinks that we needed. Once we got to the sail and got running, our popcorn machine broke down. We had to call in my dad to bring the back-up generator and power the machine. While I was planning my project out for this attempt, some of the problems I faced were things like: where will I sell, and when will I do this. To solve these problems I thought about where and when I did my sale the first time. I decided that I will talk to people to find a place where I can sell when I need to. I thought about it and I decided that most of my free time is in the summer so I will do it then. The next problem I came upon was people. I can’t do all of this by myself. It would be too much work. I really didn’t solve this until I was telling some of my friends about this and they really wanted to help. I thought that they could be the “stage hands” for my project. My project has grown from just an idea to a plan. I have researched my topic, and planned out what I wanted to do. I thought about times and places, and I even got some volunteers that will help me out. I like the idea that my project has a plan behind it. Ti me it is easier to have a plan than an idea. I can’t wait to start this and I really want to raise a lot of money.