The week of November 13th to 16th, the MC ATHENA club hosted a Kindness Week for World Kindness Week. The young women involved in the club brainstormed and developed many ways for the students of Marion Center to show kindness. They put sticky notes on lockers, kindness jars in the girls’ bathroom, then on November 16th, the final day of Kindness week , they held a bingo day! Students were encouraged to bring kindness to the school and spread kindness through the halls during this week-long event. Malaya Snyder and Kieler Elkin, two sophomores, took this message to heart and created and sold Kindness Bags for students to buy for themselves or to share with a friend.
During the week, many students bought these Kindness bags during lunch. Kieler and Malaya were working to raise money to donate to the Suicide Task Force of Indiana County. The two sophomores donated the candy and other goodies for the Kindness bags. The Kindness Bag idea was very popular and widespread, encouraging the students who
When Malaya was asked about the thought behind the Kindness Bags she said, “Kieler and I came up with this idea because our school doesn’t do much with suicide awareness and we wanted to acknowledge it because we know tons of people struggle with it every year. We wanted to find a way to bring joy to other people’s lives by gifting bags that have motivational things to give them the courage to keep going and not give up.”
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