Donations Needed For 'Love In A Sweater' Collection Drive
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Jennifer [email protected]
Aarshia Jain, 16, a Warsaw Community High School junior, is a member of Kosciusko Youth Leadership Academy. For her Project Proud service project she decided to do a sweater drive.
Jackets, pullovers, sweatshirts, cardigans and hooded sweatshirts also can be donated.
The initial goal is to collect 500 sweaters, Jain said.
Jain said she knows friends and family in India, the United Kingdom and France who are collecting sweaters that will be donated to Kosciusko County. Others in Illinois, California, Colorado and Georgia also will donate.
“The idea behind the name is, how much love can you put into a sweater you give someone?”
Jain said she started collecting the sweaters at the end of March, and they will be collected until the fall. There have been 40 sweaters collected so far.
There will be an open sweater week where the sweaters that have been collected will be washed and folded, and people can come and take them for free.
Jain said while in KYLA she was required to come up with a service project to help the community.
“At first I was going to do a food drive, but I talked to my mom, Dr. Neeta Jain, who is a pediatrician at Kosciusko Community Hospital, who told me her patients and families come into her office in the winter with short sleeves – not because they don’t want to wear long sleeves, but because they don’t have any,” Jain said.
She said her mother suggested she do a sweater drive, and her father, Akash, suggested doing a global sweater drive with their family and friends assisting in donating sweaters in addition to the local community.
Any financial donations that people give will go 100 percent back into buying sweaters.
“My birthday was in January, so when the calls started coming in to wish me happy birthday I asked them to set up donation boxes,” Jain said.
Donation boxes are at Warsaw Community School Corp. Central Office, Edgewood and Lakeview Middle Schools, Gateway Education Center; Washington, Eisenhower, Lincoln, Claypool, Harrison, Jefferson, Leesburg, and Madison Elementary Schools; WCHS and Warsaw Area Career Center.
Local businesses that have collection boxes include: Wolford's Cleaners, 216 S. Lake St., Warsaw; First Source Bank, 120 S. Lake St., Warsaw; Stacy's Sports Inn, 309 S. Main St., Leesburg; Thorne Insurance, 2132 E. Center St., Warsaw; Pottery Bayou, 806 Park Ave., Winona Lake; Eastlake Skating, 3010 Frontage Road, Warsaw; and Church Of The Nazarene, 1654 Fisher Ave., Warsaw.
People also can write a check with “WCHS Love In A Sweater” in the memo line and drop it off at the WCHS main office.
For more information, visit loveinasweater.org or on Facebook at Love In A Sweater.[[In-content Ad]]
Aarshia Jain, 16, a Warsaw Community High School junior, is a member of Kosciusko Youth Leadership Academy. For her Project Proud service project she decided to do a sweater drive.
Jackets, pullovers, sweatshirts, cardigans and hooded sweatshirts also can be donated.
The initial goal is to collect 500 sweaters, Jain said.
Jain said she knows friends and family in India, the United Kingdom and France who are collecting sweaters that will be donated to Kosciusko County. Others in Illinois, California, Colorado and Georgia also will donate.
“The idea behind the name is, how much love can you put into a sweater you give someone?”
Jain said she started collecting the sweaters at the end of March, and they will be collected until the fall. There have been 40 sweaters collected so far.
There will be an open sweater week where the sweaters that have been collected will be washed and folded, and people can come and take them for free.
Jain said while in KYLA she was required to come up with a service project to help the community.
“At first I was going to do a food drive, but I talked to my mom, Dr. Neeta Jain, who is a pediatrician at Kosciusko Community Hospital, who told me her patients and families come into her office in the winter with short sleeves – not because they don’t want to wear long sleeves, but because they don’t have any,” Jain said.
She said her mother suggested she do a sweater drive, and her father, Akash, suggested doing a global sweater drive with their family and friends assisting in donating sweaters in addition to the local community.
Any financial donations that people give will go 100 percent back into buying sweaters.
“My birthday was in January, so when the calls started coming in to wish me happy birthday I asked them to set up donation boxes,” Jain said.
Donation boxes are at Warsaw Community School Corp. Central Office, Edgewood and Lakeview Middle Schools, Gateway Education Center; Washington, Eisenhower, Lincoln, Claypool, Harrison, Jefferson, Leesburg, and Madison Elementary Schools; WCHS and Warsaw Area Career Center.
Local businesses that have collection boxes include: Wolford's Cleaners, 216 S. Lake St., Warsaw; First Source Bank, 120 S. Lake St., Warsaw; Stacy's Sports Inn, 309 S. Main St., Leesburg; Thorne Insurance, 2132 E. Center St., Warsaw; Pottery Bayou, 806 Park Ave., Winona Lake; Eastlake Skating, 3010 Frontage Road, Warsaw; and Church Of The Nazarene, 1654 Fisher Ave., Warsaw.
People also can write a check with “WCHS Love In A Sweater” in the memo line and drop it off at the WCHS main office.
For more information, visit loveinasweater.org or on Facebook at Love In A Sweater.[[In-content Ad]]
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