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YOUTH & TEEN NORTH STATE PARENT FAMILY RESOURCE GUIDE SPRING/SUMMER 2021
North State Teens Give Back To Their Communities With Creativity,
Hard Work & Love
Abby B., Red Bluff
Abby is 14 years old and started Abby’s Sweet Feet in 2015 when she was eight. She says the program helps provide school aged children with proper shoes and socks for school “ so they can put their best foot forward into learning.” She has also been able to help adults and children with shoes during California wildfires. To date Abby has been able to provide almost 800 pairs of shoes and socks.
Jeremy M. and
Alison B., Redding
Jeremy, 15; and Alison, 16, volunteer at their church, helping the elderly with yard work and chores. They also spend a great deal of time during the holidays to bake and distribute cookies and deliver poinsettias to neighbors, friends and senior church members, spreading cheer throughout the year.
Magella M., Willows
Two years ago Magella, who is now 18 years old, created the Socktober community service project, collecting new pairs of socks for people in need. This year she placed collection boxes around Glenn County at local businesses to collect new, warm winter supplies and invited the Willows High School Key Club and Glenn County 4-H to help collect and wrap the items for Christmas. Magella delivered 339 gifts to people in need throughout the county.
Thomas W., Yreka
Thomas is 18 years old and is involved in the Interact Club through Yreka High School and the Teen Leadership Council through the Siskiyou Family YMCA. Both of these groups are dedicated to community service. In these programs,
he has fed the homeless
on Saturday mornings, volunteered as a leader for Parents Night Out and was a counselor for Camp L.E.A.D during his junior and senior years of high school.
Anastasia H., Red Bluff
When she was eight, Anastasia started Project Heroes as a way to give back to local military families and veterans by delivering meal baskets and toys at Christmas. When she was13, Ana turned her project into a corporation and delivered to veteran and military families and also disaster relief. Now 14, Ana has delivered meal baskets, toys, new blankets and pajamas to hundreds of military families, as well as families from the Rancho Tehama shooting and the Carr and Camp fires. Her goal is to take her project nationwide to help veterans and military families all across the United States.
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