Making a Difference in 2009 - Washington Elementary
For our Making a Difference project 2009, we took a suggestion from one of our customers to give assistance to a summer kids program at an underprivileged elementary school. Following our customer's lead, we contacted Washington Elementary in downtown Salt Lake City, UT and learned they needed various supplies to make the program a success. It's a great cause that keeps kids off the streets and busy with worthwhile activities, projects, and games while they're on summer break. We broke from the office for the better part of a day to fill up shopping carts at Walmart and Target. It was a crazy spectrum of supplies from paint, clay, glitter and glue, to soccer balls, dodge balls, Frisbees and jump ropes. It was fun to be hands on and get these supplies delivered to the summer program. We're looking forward to 2010. Please feel free to send your suggestions to info@CampusBookRentals.com. We are headquartered in Ogden, UT, but that doesn't limit our ability to take our Making a Difference program to other regions. If you can think if a worthwhile project, we'll consider it, I promise.
Getting ready to load up the cars and make the delivery
We had to clean out 4 Walmart's of their water color
Shot of some of the supplies
I promise we didn't play with ALL of the sports equipment
Making a Difference in 2008 through the OLPC Foundation
CampusBookRentals.com is dedicated to making a difference in the world through humanitarian projects, and it’s all made possible because of our customers who rent textbooks rather than buy them. Although you probably didn’t know, when you rent from our site we donate a portion of the rental fee to our humanitarian project fund which is used on at least one project each year.
Our 2008 project is very important to us. We have committed to provide laptops to school children through the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) foundation. You can visit their site and learn more about this awesome undertaking by clicking here. The OLPC foundation opens doors and opportunities to children who would otherwise have little chance. We're excited to be helping in this effort and you should be too! Kudos to the OLPC for their accomplishment in bettering the world through education. Please help us reach our commitment of donating one hundred laptops. All you have to do is rent your textbooks. You'll be saving money and changing lives.
Stay in touch with our projects through our “Making a Difference” link. We’ll post pictures, progress, and keep you involved in the difference YOU are making by being a customer of CampusBookRentals.com. Thank You!
- The CampusBookRentals.com Team
