Last week at Seeds of Caring we had more camp sessions Tuesday through Thursday. This is the third week out of 4 weeks in our first session. This past week we covered hospitalized children and made cheer banners and activity kits for kids at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

After talking with my advisor who is our Operations director, we decided that I would take a bit of charge with this lesson. Since my sister has spent a lot of time at Children’s, I was able to talk more about my experience being a sibling of someone who had spent time there as a kid. For a few of the camps I was talking about our topic, reading our book, and conducting the opening meeting.

I was nervous to be doing this part of the lessons since I am by no means a teacher, but there are many different roles within a nonprofit organization and getting experience taking on this one I felt was valuable. I had a good time talking with the kids about this subject, because many of them had similar experiences, and I could tell they were feeling empathetic towards these kids. This is one of the goals of our program. Towards the end of the week, I met with our Executive Director to talk about a meeting I had last week, as well as some career advice I received from that meeting. We discussed my notes as well.

On Friday, we went and donated the banners and activity kits to Nationwide Children’s Hospital. It was a good experience as we were able to speak more to the workers at the front desk about who these donations were going to, and they appreciated the donations the kids made as well.

What has been very cool during these donations drop offs has been that we have been asking the people who work there some questions and filming their answers. We do this so we can show the kids exactly who their donations are going to. Sometimes it is hard for the kids to let go off what they had just made so it can go to someone else, but these videos show them where and who their donation and hard work is going to which has helped them. They have enjoyed these videos very much, and it helps them to get excited about what we will be donating next!