Student Leadership Club is a new club that works to organize fundraisers to benefit the community around Highlands High School.
This December, the club decided to do something for the kids at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
The club started to plan and organize a toy drive for all of HHS to participate in. Each toy given will go to Children’s Hospital and make a difference in these kids’ holiday season.
“The main goal is to be able to accumulate enough toys to be able to make a difference in the children’s lives, especially during christmas season. It’s just an easy way to do it and they appreciate anything,” Shelby Shields (12), founder and president of Student Leadership Club and chair of the toy drive committee, said.
Student Leadership Club members have had many opportunities to help the community and this is only one example of them.
“I wanted to do this fundraiser over the other fundraisers for the Student Leadership Club because I wanted to give the children in the hospital a good Christmas and I thought the toy drive would have the highest success rate,” Aaliyah Johnson (9), member of Student Leadership Club and member of toy drive committee, said.
To ensure that the toy drive would be successful, the committee had to do lots of planning and figure out how to get all of Highlands involved.
“I made advertisements and made sure the students at HHS knew about this,” Johnson said.
Once the school knew about the impact this would have on these kid’s Christmas, they started working to donate as many toys as possible.
“So the club as a whole has a really important role in it, and then the toy drive committee … and then the members are really important as well as the school as a whole,” Shields said.
Student Leadership Club has worked hard to put this together and it was extremely successful in helping kids.
