First Day of the Drive

We have been promoting the drive heavily over the past few days. Today is the first official day of the drive but jars have already been coming in left and right. It is great to see the students bringing peanut butter today and hearing all the positive feedback. We do not have an exact count yet after the first day but a rough estimate would be around 600 jars, which is a nice way to start off the drive on the first day. While this is still a long way from our goal the positive feedback and the partnerships we have made will help us reach our goal. Schools within the county have offered to participate in the peanut butter drive and raise both money and jars which we are so happy to hear. Also, school systems outside of the county have agreed to participate in the peanut butter drive as we try to reach our goal of 3 million. With the help of all of you and the help of school systems and companies outside of the community of Georgetown/Scott County we should start to see a rapid increase in the number of jars we are receiving.

Also I would like to thank the following companies for collecting peanut butter or being a drop off point for the peanut butter so far:

Theatres of Georgetown
Hair Worx
La-Z-Boy in Lexington
Christian Broadcasting Systems

Making Strides

Just wanted to give everyone an update. I have been amazed at the support we have received so far. We have had over 400 hits to the blog, awesome! Kroger is completely out of their Kroger brand peanut butter, and Wal-Mart is out of their brand also!!! We've had people drop peanut butter off to our house and have had emails from kind souls who have heard about our project and wanted to see how they could help. The big news today, Tyler Florence retweeted us!! Which means, our blog address went out to the 117,000 people that follow him on twitter!!! Way to go Tyler, thanks for the help to get our word out there.

Again, we're making great progress, but we still have a long road ahead of us. Anything you can do to help would be greatly appreciated, by us and by the people of Haiti that need all the help they can get right now.

"I expect to pass through life but once.  If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again."  William Penn

Shipping

We have received some questions about shipping and how we will be shipping the peanut butter to Haiti. The Northwest Christian Haiti Mission will be shipping all of it down and sending it with their people for distribution. We will be doing fundraisers to help the mission with the costs of shipping. However, at the moment our goal and focus is on gathering the peanut butter and getting it all together. We will help get it down to the people as soon as possible, and hopefully after three weeks the airports in Haiti will be up and running smoothly especially to ship it down.

Thanks for the all question and support. Tell your friends in your hometowns and your friends in other cities. This is such a great cause and we look forward to everyone's support with this fantastic undertaking!

Yahoo!

So I have to give some information. We are big now I guess because we are on Yahoo! with the news and article!

http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/81828692.html

Check it out! This is going to get big quick so let's rock and roll as we raise peanut butter for Haiti!

Coverage

There will be a segment on the news tonight on WKYT27 during the 11 o'clock news. Check out the segment and if you are interested in donating then shoot us a message and help us hit our goal which will help thousands of people in the small country of Haiti!

Our Goals Makes TV!!

Make sure to watch WLEX-18 tonight at 6:00! Two of the students involved in this quest were interviewed this afternoon and it will be aired tonight. Let's hope that this gives our mission a great kick start!!

What It's all About

Let me start off by saying a big thank you to my wife for setting this thing up. She likes to blog a lot and I appreciate her helping us out with this!

I am a teacher at Scott County High School. School wide, we have particpated in charitable works, such as a can food drive to benefit the Amen House and the trim-a-tree contest that raises money for Christmas gifts for local families that would not otherwise have any. I have enjoyed working for and helping my fellow citizens of Scott County; however, like many, my attention has been turned to the world stage and primarily Haiti.

We see the devastation that has occurred and the sadness that has hit such a small country. Last year, a student at our high school, under the works of Northwest Haiti Christian Mission, put together a peanut butter drive for the people of Haiti and raised 500 jars. This year we start off on a journey to raise so much more. The estimated population of Haiti is three million. Three million people in need. In need of food, shelter, medical attention and so much more.

Our goal this year is to raise three million jars of peanut butter in three weeks. It is a lofty goal. However, we have no doubt that we can do this. Our school and entire district has a giving spirit that can't be rivaled; but we need help. We need you to feel the compassion for the people of Haiti and help us meet our goal of three million jars of peanut butter. We will be working on setting up a Paypal link on this site for any monetary donations you would like to give. If you're interested in shipping peanut butter to us, contact me for our school address. If you live in the Georgetown/Lexington area, we can make arrangements to have the peanut butter picked up from your home or office space.

Thank you in advance for your help with this project.