Buddy Boxes 

In September 2019, I had the pleasure of volunteering at The Family Mentor Foundation with a group of first year students from my scholars program. During our time there, we helped the organization make buddy boxes. Buddy boxes are boxes filled with snacks for elementary students in various schools around Central Ohio. The Family Mentor Foundation makes about 1,500 buddy boxes each week to deliver to students who may not have food to eat for the weekend. Therefore, our goal was to help them build and fill (with snacks) 1,500 in three hours. Fortunately, we made over three thousand buddy boxes!! It was very heartwarming to know that within the small amount of time we were there, we had made such a huge impact. I love being able to do something to positively impact my community and making someone else smile or feel loved. So kudos to us for working together for a great cause! Check out the video below to see us all in action, unfortunately I couldn’t add any music in the background, but I hope you can still enjoy the six-second silent “movie”.