Children’s Homes’ Kids Help with
Buckets of Hope Project
March 4, 2010
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| Malik, a resident on the Lakeland campus of the Florida Baptist Children’s Homes shows the bucket he helped pack with supplies for victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Kids on the Children’s Homes’ Lakeland campus packed more than 30 buckets for the Buckets of Hope project to benefit those suffering as a result of the earthquake in Haiti. |
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| Kids from the Lakeland campus of the Florida Baptist Children’s Homes line up next to the more than 30 buckets they packed with supplies for victims of the earthquake in Haiti. The project was part of the Buckets of Hope project to benefit those suffering as a result of the earthquake in Haiti. |
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| Kids from the Lakeland campus of the Florida Baptist Children’s Homes work to pack more than 30 buckets with supplies for victims of the earthquake in Haiti. The project was part of the Buckets of Hope project to benefit those suffering as a result of the earthquake in Haiti. |
LAKELAND, Fla. – “I need another bag of rice.” “Where’s the peanut butter?” These were the sounds as more than 25 kids from the Lakeland campus of the Florida Baptist Children’s Homes worked to pack more than 30 buckets for the Buckets of Hope project.
Buckets of Hope is a project of the Florida Baptist Convention to help provide aid to victims of the earthquake in Haiti. The project consists of packing specified nonperishable food supplies in a five-gallon plastic bucket. The supplies consist of rice, beans, cooking oil, sugar, flour, spaghetti, and peanut butter. Each bucket is designed to feed one Haitian family for a week.
Pam Whitaker, director of the Children’s Homes’ Lakeland campus said that the kids were very enthusiastic about helping the people in Haiti, noting that several of the kids even donated some of their allowance to the buckets project.
“Our kids have benefited from those that support the Children’s Homes, so we try to teach them about the importance of helping others,” Whitaker said.
“But besides giving back, the kids feel more empowered when they have the opportunity to help others. It helps them take the focus off of their own personal pain and individual issues and that they may be going through.”
“When the earthquake in Haiti happened the kids immediately started asking all kinds of questions about how they could help. This was a popular mission project because the kids were able to connect a major current event that they were hearing about on the news with something they could help out with in a hands-on way.”
The Children’s Homes’ six campus locations are also serving as drop-off locations for churches and other members of the community that would like to participate in the Buckets of Hope project. The Children’s Homes will be collecting completed buckets until March 15.
To learn more about the Buckets of Hope project or to find a Children’s Homes’ campus location near you, go to their website at www.FBCHomes.org or contact them at (863) 687-8811.
