This energetic and enthusiastic young woman is a freshman at Elon University. She contacted me during the summer to say that she wanted to start a CTT club at her new school once she got settled in. Well, it didn’t take her long to learn her way around her new digs and get involved. She has already joined a club called Students for Peace & Justice, and the club has decided to form a branch that solely focuses on CTT!
Her first missive from school reported that the group is “brainstorming fundraising ideas and still deciding if we want to work towards a specific fundraising goal or if we would rather be in contact with certain children and work towards providing secondary education for them. Another option we are exploring is selling some of the handmade jewelry, shirts, bags, and note cards that the children make. Lastly, the one event we have decided upon is to have a film viewing, basically a movie night where we will play the 30 minute documentary. We are going to advertise this event around campus and hope for a large turnout- prior to the movie we will discuss the future projects we are working towards regarding CTT. I think this will be a great way to raise awareness.”
It’s inspiring to hear these ideas springing forth from teenagers, isn’t it? Between Danielle, Max, high school girls from a local Catholic high and Lee (who I told you about a couple of posts ago), we’ve got interest in CTT bubbling in colleges and a high schools from coast to coast!
What you don’t know yet is that two of the members of Team 3 are teenagers, one is early twenty-something, and one is only ten years old! Much more about them to follow, but in the meantime, join me in taking great pleasure and pride in the young people in the world who want so much to do the right thing.
On the blog of a college student, a classmate of Max’s, I found a quote that I thought was definitely worth sharing:
“Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need; it will only impoverish them further. Give only if you have something to give; give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward.” - Dorothy Day
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