Elizabethtown /townlively
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXI • NO 35
ECHOS Plans First 30 In 3 Giving Event BY ANN MEAD ASH
Hannah Kline, a senior at Elizabethtown Area High School, is currently conducting a shoe drive to benefit orphaned children in Kenya.
Elizabethtown Senior Organizes Shoe Drive
Katlyn Lantz, development coordinator with Elizabethtown Community Housing & Outreach Services (ECHOS), invites area residents to take part in the organization’s first 30 in 3 Giving Event.
updates including snippets of videos during the three-day event. Links to videos on ECHOS’ website will be posted there. In addition, an area of the website has been designated for See ECHOS pg 3
sort them. People have different versions of wearable.” Hannah is working with Funds2Orgs, a nonprofit organization that repurposes the shoes. According to www.funds2orgs.com, the shoes are sold to microentrepreneurs for a small cost. Microentrepreneurs then mark up the shoes and sell them in their local communities for a fraction of the original price, but still for a profit. “They will take the shoes and fund microbusinesses in other countries. Their major goal is to help stimulate the economy,” said Hannah. As of early September, she had collected 1,100 pairs. “In return for 2,500 pairs of shoes, we will get $1,000. If we collect 5,000 pairs, they will give us $2,000, which is our goal,” she said. Once the shoes are collected,
Sarah Yohe, development director with Girls on the Run (GOTR), has an analogy concerning the different types and levels of anxiety people are feeling in relation to the pandemic. “ We are all in the same storm, but we all have our own individual boats with their own holes in them that we are trying to keep plugged to stay afloat,” she said.
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GOTR To Screen Film Focused On Anxiety Free Link To Connect Families To “Angst” BY ANN MEAD ASH
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When Hannah Kline of Elizabethtown was 10 years old, she and her friend Alisia Alvarez helped raise more than $8,000 to build a soccer field for orphaned children in Vietnam. Now 17 and a senior at Elizabethtown Area High School, Hannah is continuing to serve others through a shoe drive to benefit orphaned children in Kenya. The collection is being held for Brittany’s Hope, a nonprofit organization that provides humanitarian relief efforts, including food and health care, for children who live in orphanages worldwide. Brittany’s Hope also gives grants to qualifying families to help with the cost associated with international adoptions. Hannah’s family, which adopted
her from China, was able to do so through a grant received from Brittany’s Hope. Hannah proposed the idea of holding a shoe drive fundraiser after reading an article in the Brittany’s Hope newsletter about the food insecurity facing children in Kenya. “With the coronavirus, people don’t have extra money for their families, but people do have lots of old shoes,” Hannah noted. New and used shoes in any condition are being collected through Thursday, Oct. 15. Shoes can be dropped off at Brittany’s Hope on the back porch at 1160 N. Market St., Elizabethtown. “The shoes can be of any kind flip-flops, sandals, heels or sneakers - and in any condition,” Hannah said. “Ideally, the shoes should be in wearable condition, but we will
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Katlyn Lantz, development coordinator with ECHOS (Elizabethtown Community Housing & Outreach Services), has fond memories of the organization’s first fundraising banquet, called the One Community Many Neighbors Celebration, which was held in fall 2019. “We all gathered together to hear about ECHOS’ mission and vision,” she recalled, noting that past ECHOS clients spoke at the event. “This year, we had hoped to do the same,” continued Lantz, who noted that the COVID-19 pandemic served to change the organization’s plans. Instead, ECHOS is putting together a different type of appeal, titled “30 in 3.” “It’s a virtual fundraiser,” explained Lantz. “We are going to try to raise $30,000 in three days.” The fundraiser will kick off at 3 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 22, and end at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 24. Plans for the fundraiser include spotlight videos focusing on donors and clients and stakeholders in the community. According to Lantz, members of the ECHOS staff will provide Facebook
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