Not hard, she says . . . but it's making a difference
By Bill Gaither/GateHouse News Service
Ashley LaGrow leans Jan. 26 against the wall across from the main entrance to ROWVA High School. Beside LaGrow is her self-designed Teens for Jeans poster, an effort started by LaGrow to collect gently worn jeans with the donated denim going to help those in need in Haiti.
Galva News
Sat Feb 06, 2010, 02:59 PM CST
Oneida -
The earthquake that devastated Haiti has spurred local students to action.
At ROWVA High School, the charitable efforts have taken the form of a jeans collection drive, where elsewhere students are raising money for various charities.
Ashley LaGrow, a junior from Rio, is the main teen behind ROWVA’s “Teens for Jeans,” which asks school and community members to bring in “gently worn” jeans to be shipped to Haiti.
However, an outpouring of community support already has filled the large box she placed at the high school’s office on Jan. 25.
LaGrow decided on the jeans collection after finding it on the teen-driven volunteer Web site DoSomething.org. She says it was easy because the only thing she had to do was make posters and put out the box, inside ROWVA High’s main office.
For the rest of this story, see the Feb. 4 Galva News.
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