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FCCLA-HERO Community Service Projects |
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Relay for Life HERO Style Monday night event, SLC |
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Every year Minnesota FCCLA HERO strives to hold a truly inspiring statewide community service project whose goal is to help many. At this year's 2007 State Leadership Conference, working with the American Cancer Society, we will be holding a Relay for Life with our own spin on it. Relay for Life is normally an overnight event consisting of many teams of about 10 to 15 people taking turns within a 24 hour period walking or running around a track for the purpose of raising money to put forth in the fight against cancer. There is always at least one team member from each team on the track throughout the whole event. Relay is also a time to celebrate survivors, remember those who have died due to cancer, raise funds for cancer research, and educate others on the causes and precautions one can take to prevent different cancers. This year we will be holding our own Relay for Life at Grand Rios Hotel Monday evening of SLC after the banquet. The Relay will run from 9 to 11 pm. We will be conducting the Relay to raise money for the American Cancer Society, the world's largest nonprofit organization that invests over $120 million nationally in advancing cancer research each year. If we raise $2500 as a group, our names will go on the Relay T-shirts for the Brooklyn Center/Park relay. Our purpose is also to educate our youth on cancer awareness and this organization, and to inspire young people to volunteer in the future. To raise funds for this signature event, luminaries will also be sold ($10 each) to place around the "track" during our event. Luminaries are paper bags with a candle lit inside (we will be using a glow stick instead) with a personalized design to celebrate a cancer survivor, to remember someone who has died due to cancer, or acknowledge someone who has been touched by cancer. This event will truly move anyone who attends, and inspire people to reach out and put a bigger effort forth to help find a cure for cancer. Here's the twist: the track will be in the water park and we will be doing a water relay. Since this is so different from other relays we are hoping for some media coverage also. We challenge each chapter to raise at least $200 for this event. Thanks for your support and we look forward to this being a fantastic event. Haley Morris |
