Next up on the impressive Team 4 roster is high school senior Emily Collins. Emily was in the audience when I spoke about CTT at Shawnee Mission East High School this time last year. She pulled me aside after my presentation and told me she wanted to go to Uganda on the next volunteer trip. She meant what she said. A few bake sales and odd jobs later, Emily is now thinking about how she’ll squeeze everything into her luggage when she heads to the airport after her final exams in December.
She is an accomplished seamstress and has collected yards and yards of donated fabric, thread, ribbons and zippers. She’ll use these items to teach the older children at the orphanage how to make and repair their own clothes. There are three very old foot-pedaled Singer sewing machines at St. Mary Kevin; Emily and her students will fire them up and put them to good use for the ten days we are there. After we leave, her sewing class grads should be able to continue on their own.
Emily is President of Shawnee Mission East High School’s “Coalition,” a world service club. She is involved in the National Arts Honor Society. She is also a CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant.)
Going to Uganda will be her first trip outside the Midwest.
I'm so happy to have a teenager going on the trip, especially this one. The children at SMK are going to love having someone close to their own age on the team!
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