Writing Letters to Our Soldiers

Status
Initially this project is going to be used to help a local Sonoma group send out our letters and their gift boxes to our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan during the 1st week of December. Eventually, we will make this an ongoing project and part of the community stripe for belt rank promotion

Problem/Opportunity
Supporting our soldiers when they are constantly in harms way should be one of our obligations. Teaching our children to understand the idea of gratitude, why they have the freedoms they have is because of young men and women risking their lives to protect us all.

Solution
Make the idea of letter writing a part of our students stripping process, and give them the help, examples and guidelines to understand how to do this project.

Action
1) Set up a guideline for our students to use if they need help with this project.
2) Make the guideline available at the school and the internet.
3) Be the link that collect the letters and gets them to the resource that distributes tem to the soldiers
4) Make sure student receives recognition for helping


Results
We have written and sent 48 letter to date and will be making this an ongoing project with continual results