Helping The Homeless

The topic my group (Female Dogg) picked was homelessness and we needed to raise money to buy them a gift of essential items.

Our first action was actually enabled by a disabler, we were initially going to do a mufti day. But we were unable to, due to it being unfair, because if one group does it everyone else will want to do it too. So we chose to do a raffle instead.

We needed to get permission from Mr. Rogers to do our raffle. Oceana emailed him asking for permission and it was approved. Luckily we had no disablers during this process. This was our first step into the right direction to help the homeless.

 We then advertised our raffle by putting up posters and went into classrooms to explain what is was, how you could enter and why we're doing it. The majority of the entries were from the staff of HHS. 

Problems came here and there but there was one specific problem which was buying the raffle items. Mr. Aitken was kind enough to use his own money and bought the raffle items. After that we were all set to host a raffle and we raised roughly $100+ 

On Thursday the 7th of December we drew the raffle and Mrs. Beer won it, she was very excited and happy that she won. Because of that we have made a positive impact in the community already. Oceana also used the money we raised to buy the items we're giving to the homeless. 

We have given the bag to a homeless and we hope it helps them. Maybe this will spread some kindness and have a chain reaction. Pass it forward.

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop

PBL Action Plan

Steps needed to achieve the goal.	What will help us achieve this goal?(Enablers)	Possible barriers and how they could be overcome.	Who is responsible for this step?	Date this step will be achieved by.
Emailing Mr rogers and asking him if we can have a raffle	Having his email address Mr. rogers saying yes	Mr. rogers saying no We could overcome this by hosting the raffle on our own	Oceana	15/11/17
Having a successful raffle	People buying raffle tickets	No one buying the tickets we can overcome this by  expanding the knowledge of our existence by advertising the raffle with posters	Sapphire, Oceana & James	Before 8.12.17 and hopefully from 20.11.17 - 24.11.17
To get the blankets, clothes, etc. for the homeless	A teacher taking us to buy them Having the funds to actually buy it Getting permission to go and buy them Ask Mr. Rogers	Not having permission to leave the school Not having the funds Basically the opposite of the things that will help us achieve this We could overcome this by having someone else such as a teacher for us.	Sapphire, Oceana & James	After the raffle is complete so we have some funds at least
Giving the bag of goods we raised money for to organisations to give to the homeless	Finding a trustable organisation transport with a teacher Time	using our own time to deliver them or getting other people to deliver them for us such as through the organisations for safety reasons.	Sapphire, Oceana & James	Before or on the 8th of december

Project Based Learning

For project based learning, Sapphire, Oceana and I have chosen to help the homeless and make a positive impact on the community in New Zealand and possibly around the world too.

Our group name is Female Dogg

Here are the ideas we've come up with to help them: 

• Do a mufti day to Raise Money
• For the mufti day make posters, to spread awareness   
• Interview them and write their stories on a blogpost.
• If we need to raise more money we can maybe do a sausage sizzle and all the money goes towards the things they will need
• Maybe we can get My fathers Barbers to cut their hair
• Raffle
• Make food
• Raise money and donate to a campaign that’s already raising money for the homeless

I have only looked a few websites such as Mother Nature Network which has assisted in giving me some ideas to help the homeless.

https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/responsible-living/blogs/9-ways-you-can-help-the-homeless

http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/09/these-formerly-homeless-people-have-shared-the-best-things-you-can-do-to-really-make-a-difference-6563674/

We could choose a few of the most effective ways of helping from the list above and go through with them to ensure we aren't wasting our time and resources. We've also encountered a big obstacle in which we can't have a mufti day at school, our solution is possibly doing a raffle.

If you walk past a homeless and you don't have anything to give them just be friendly, acknowledge them, show them a bit of compassion and say hello or good morning. Homeless people lose the feeling of being a person and people act like they're not there when they walk past.