The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the entire world by changing lifestyles, but it especially has brought hardships to those who live in underfunded communities. Project Kind Packs supports these communities by giving hand-made packages that are filled with essentials to Dallas ISD students and teachers.
Prisha Mehta, 15, and Manogna Jonnalagadda, 16, are from Frisco, Texas. Their shared passion for storytelling, reading, and writing, as well as their firm belief that every child should have access to quality education regardless of their socioeconomic status, brought them together in the midst of the pandemic to cultivate Project Kind Packs.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students and teachers across the nation were forced to adjust to the new system of online learning. After realizing that many underfunded districts and low-income communities were unable to smoothly transition to online learning, Prisha and Manogna wanted to come up with a way to help underserved students and teachers recover from this pandemic. Creating Project Kind Packs would help restore a sense of excitement and motivation in these students and teachers to help them kick off the 2020-2021 school year with a renewed, positive outlook.
The project gives underprivileged Dallas ISD elementary schools “Kind Packs”, which are packages filled with school supplies, books, hygienic supplies, and letters of encouragement. Through Project Kind Packs, they hope to spread kindness, hope, and encouragement to these schools. Their goal is to place Kind Packs in the hands of more than 300 Dallas ISD students and more than 10 Dallas ISD teachers when school resumes in August.
Project Kind Packs has successfully promoted their project by creating an introductory video, as well as a detailed post on their website and social media outlining their project and its mission. They routinely post on their blog, writing about updates on their mission to helping these communities. Project Kind Packs have recently launched a fundraiser, introduced volunteer opportunities, as well as other activities and contests through their website. Only 10 days after officially launching their project, they have been able to raise $1080. They have even partnered with an organization, The Leaders Readers Network, to further their mission in helping the underprivileged community during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Support their mission by viewing their website! Click here.
Comments