Bake Sale/Lemonade Stand by MMS Eighth Graders

Millburn Middle School has a program called peer leaders which teaches eighth graders about character. Each peer leader group is specialized in a certain area, be it the MASH group, the technology group who helps teachers and elderly people learn to operate some difficult technology, or the SOAR group which finds creative ways through art to help the world. The peer leader group SHOW, Students Helping Our World, is a fundraiser group for students and children in third world countries. This year SHOW is sending money to Habitat for Humanity, WorldVision India, and ARK (Advancement for Rural Kids).

 Among others, there is usually a major event at the end of the year that SHOW does in conjunction with REBEL (the group against drugs and smoking) called Kick Butt Day. This is like a carnival and the theme is not smoking (butt is for cigarette butt). This usually is the primary fundraiser and raises over a thousand dollars yearly.

However, this year with all that is going on, our peer leader advisors have told us Kick Butt Day after school is not possible. They have creatively changed it into Kick Butt Week-where every day students learn about smoking during lunch. This is great to discourage smoking, but some SHOW peer leaders additionally wanted to find a way to raise money. 

Realizing a fundraiser related to the school was hard to plan, we found an alternative way to raise funds for our causes outside of school, without the teachers or the school being involved. We came up with a bakesale. There will be cookies, lemonade, iced tea and more so come today to support students in other countries who often are not able to get a snack or go to school.

We hope to see you there! :)

Claire Singer, Courtney Cooperman, Swathi Nachiappan and the SHOW peer leaders