DeWitt Gives Back

Purpose

What We Do:

A high school based group that collects items monthly to give away
We run a clothing closet at the high school. It has clothes, personal hygiene items, food, water bottles, etc for any student who needs them. This is also used for students in temporary homes or students who are homeless in the district.
We work with the Greater Lansing Food Bank and provide weekly food bags to high school students

Future Collections:

October- Socktober. Collecting socks for homeless shelters. New or gently used

November- Halloween Candy, food for the DeWitt food pantries

December- Gift bags for Lansing kids (Kid hats and mittens, crayons, coloring books, small toys, tote bags, kid books)

Giving Tree at the high school

January/February- Elementary requests

March- Stocking our high school clothing closet (travel or full sized personal hygiene items, nail polish, body sprays, lotions, perfumes, Old Spice body wash or spray)

April- Treats for our high school teachers

May- Collecting hygiene supplies for the Women’s Center of Greater Lansing (pads, tampons, paper towel, lysol wipes, full size lotion, shampoo and conditioners)

What we've done

We collected over 700 pairs of socks in October for local homeless shelters. In November we collected food for the DeWitt food banks. In December we adopted a kindergarten and 1st grade in Lansing. We gave gift bags for every child which included personal hygiene items, crayons and coloring books, snacks, books and other goodies!

DeWitt High School club celebrates SocktoberDeWitt Gives Back celebrated the month of October differently. The new high school club held Socktober by accepting sock donations to be given to the homeless. The event was announced in a Facebook post. Club adviser Kelsey Droste established the club over the summer and has had a great turnout in student involvement. Droste said […]

DeWitt Gives Back hosts new donation event for NovemberA new month means a new donation event for the high school club DeWitt Give Back. The club designated October as Socktober and asked community members to donate socks for those in need. More than 700 pairs of socks were donated throughout the month. The socks were donated to various locations including a veterans halfway house, Lansing area homeless shelters and a domestic abuse shelter. For November, the club announced on Facebook, a food drive is being held to collect donations for local food pantries.

Why You Should Join:

This club is for any high school student to join and it is so much fun! You and your friends can join and share the joy that comes from giving back to the community. It is very empowering and all our experiences are so eye opening.

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