Little Things make a big difference............

Al from Z99 (local radio station AM DJ) was making comments about pennies, and nickels being meaningless. My daughters grade two class was discussing this, so their teacher had a challenge issued. Bring in as many pennies as you can, well word of this got out, and more classes decided to participate. And from there it just snowballed. Unicef donated Halloween treat bags, they were filled with food donations and taken to the school. DD grade two class filled an entire coffee can with pennies, the money raised will go to UNICEF charities. The food donated will go to the local food bank. It is an awesome thing that DD is learning that the LITTLE things make a BIG difference, both locally and globally. Walking into the school on Friday to see the amount of food in the assembly centre was breathtaking. In DD Friday journal letter home to Mom, she talked about giving to others less fortunate. My reply back was how proud I was that she had learned Little things can make a big difference. This morning I picked up the phone book, and called Al. Told him that I was impressed with my take on it. On the 31st the radio station will do the morning show from the school. The class that raises enough pennies will get to "pie" Al in the face for his attitude about pennies. He says he is totally playing it up. From this going back and forth on the radio with the challenges, the Z studios have almost filled a total water bottle (the big 5 gallon ones) with pennies from people just dropping in and dumping change in.
What a lesson to learn....Little things do make a big difference.