VolunteerLEON's Featured Story - September 2004

Youth Corps' One Days Pay Helps Floridians in Need

Thank you Leon County for making “One Day’s Pay” a success! The Disaster Comfort Supplies Drive at Winn Dixie, Saturday September 11th was well attended and VolunteerLEON Youth Corps members received a lot of donations for the victims of the hurricanes. Donations were delivered directly to the American Red Cross after the event. We collected toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoo, soap, hairbrushes, baby wipes, body wash, deodorant, and washcloths that filled over 3 shopping carts!

The drive also had drop boxes at four Leon County Tax Collector Office locations. Youth Corps volunteers were able to deliver four more full boxes of donated supplies to the American Red Cross for distribution to the victims of the hurricanes.

Thanks to Winn Dixie for allowing us to hold the event at their Magnolia Street location and of course we want to thank the community for so generously donating supplies for the victims of the hurricanes! We also want to express our gratitude to the six students from Florida State University’s Service Leadership Seminar who came out to help the Youth Corps with the donation drive.

The Youth Corps did a wonderful job planning this event and they are very proud to have taken part in “One Day’s Pay”- a National Day of Service in honor of the disasters that occurred on September 11th, 2001. “One Day’s Pay” is a movement launched in 2003 to establish September 11th as a national day of kindness, volunteerism and reflection that more than one million people nation wide participate in. The Youth Corps made this national day of service a huge success here locally!

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