Our ProjectOur Project is called Hoops for Hope. We are planning to host a fundraiser on December 8th at a double-header Basketball game. Our school will be playing against our biggest rivals, so we are expecting a big crowd. We will have raffle donation baskets, Chick-Fil-A, t-shirts, and chuck-a-duck. We hope to raise a lot of money that we are going to be giving to Hope Center Indy. Along with the donations we will be giving we also hope to raise awareness in our community. The Hope Center is a place where women go after they have been victims of sex trafficking. It is a horrible thing that women could be experiencing and there is a place right in our backyard to help. We hope to bring a change and see a difference. "You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again you did not know." How it startedWe began our brainstorming process by looking through different projects in the past. We saw lots of great ideas and different types of fundraisers, but none that truly spoke to us the way this idea did. One of my group members, Jocelynn Flagle, works at Hope Center Indy. She was very passionate about helping with the dog barn they have there. It is where dogs learn to smell a specific chemical in electronics. This will help them find different microchips and hard drives where human traffickers can be storing images and videos of victims suffering from this treatment. At first we were going to make just that our project but after some thinking we realized that many people are going to be more open to donating to the organization as a whole rather than just the dog barn. This way the proceeds can be split among the Hope Center and all the different programs it has. We wanted this to be big, and we knew it couldn't be during the fall season because of another project from fellow classmates that we are helping with. We decided to make it happen during the winter and we thought what better way to host a fundraiser than to have it at a school basketball game that a big portion of the community will attend. Thankfully, the game will be on one of the biggest games of the season. We are hoping to raise $5,000 and find a dollar to dollar match which will bring us to $10,000. The Hope center is a Faith based organization, so we are asking many different churches for their support and inviting them to attend the game. Pitch DayAfter gathering all of the information we needed we were eager to hear back from the administrators on what ideas they also had for our project. We had included all of the different logistics for our project such as dates, what we need, and what we will do in the mean time. We discussed all of the resources we will be needing. This includes approval for game, raffle basket supplies, donators/sponsors, and T-shirts to create. Our main point was discussing what our mission is. Stopping the spread of human trafficking. We want more awareness in our community and if we are lucky we hope to spread farther than that and let the seriousness be known of the situation to many more places. The administrators thought our presentation was amazing and gave great feedback. Our project was a go!
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