“Head Start Awareness & Diaper Drive Celebration!”

Event was sucessfully completed.

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Here are some Testimonials especially for event:

 

“Sanya is a true inspiration to so many people and it is wonderful to see the impact she has made locally and nationally at such a young age.  Her dreams of helping people has become a reality and there are no limits to what she will accomplish in her charitable giving today, tomorrow and in years to come.”-       

Local Business Owner Erik Westrum in Prior Lake, MN

 

"Well that works perfectly!! Sanya Pirani of the organization Sanya’s Hope for Children is a monumental leader in her community. Her dedication to the health and wellness of children locally and globally is extremely selfless and compassionate. She is very gifted at rallying others and has made a huge difference in the lives of children and families who need help and hope." - 

Katie Olson, Development Associate/Monthly Giving Specialist

 

"This was a wonderful community event for families in need. What a great way to create community engagement. The volunteer turnout was tremendous." -

Laura Gilkey, Director of Head Start & Education Services, Scott Carver Dakota CAP Agency.

 

"The head start program was a great event that brought together a group of children to adults that raised awareness for families in need. Great fun and results for everyone involved." Orlando Mazzolini, Parent of 5th Grade student and Event Volunteer.

 

"The Diaper Drive Celebration Event was a huge success! I had the pleasure of working with Sanya and volunteering at the event. Everything ran smoothly and everyone who was there had a lot of fun! Very impressive to have organized such a massive project and event. It's been great working with you, Sanya. I wish you all the best in your future endeavors!" Braeden Malotky, Prior Lake High School National Honor Society President.  

 

My daughter and I were so humbled and proud to be a part of Sanya's event. It was an amazing event, and Sanya is an inspiration to all of us."Josie Reichwald

Parent of 5th Grade student and Event Volunteer.

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Reasons to organize Head Start Awareness and  Diaper drive, Sanya Pirani, 5th grader, read the article on “talk poverty” about 10.2% Minnesotan families and 12.7 % children under 18 live under poverty guideline (that means family of four earns $24,259/year). She also learned from CAP agency that we have 395 families in our community who are enrolled in the head start program. She also learned Head start provides children and families holistic solutions. Let me explain, it provides early education, proper health checkups, social services, and proper nutrition resources. She realized that many people have no or little knowledge about head start program. She also found out that 1 in 3 mothers experience diaper needs in the first 3 months of a child’s birth. 48% of families delay changing diapers to extend their supply, Diapers cannot be bought with food stamps, Diaper supplies are usually the requirement for day cares and did you know Governor Dayton has dedicated a week in September for a diaper awareness week for above reasons? For all these reason Sanya thought as her organization needed to do something about this. In other words Sanya believe in just society and trying to help poverty stricken communities.  She recruited local youth who could help her.

 

Sanya's Hope For Children Team includes Andrea, Mathew A, Sophia, Harrison, Ian, and Hidden Oaks middle school student council students, we also have Mary Grace, Ella H, Annie M, Anna M, Hayley C, and Mary S from St. Wenceslaus Catholic School, well as Prior Lake National Honor society students are volunteering. Her team included. We had over 40 volunteers. You probably wondering why youth and other volunteers care about poverty? Sanya explains very well in her speeches and in her talk to youth, she says “Poverty and Hunger are intertwined and have no borders. However, human dignity is tied to every other human on the earth. When millions of people are hungry right here in America and around the world, we suffocate human potential because a hungry mind cannot think.” This message resonate very well with her team that is the reason all her partner were passionate about helping Sanya.

 

 

Event details, achievements, what changed and community impact: Event was open to all local community including Scott, Dakota and Carver County. It was fun event includes, games, free gifts, candies, music, Arts and Craft by Amy O’Malley family, Davanni’s Pizza, silent auction, dance by Shana’s Studio, teddy bear band. We had around 200 community members turn out to support and enjoy the event. It was the very first event Sanya’s Hope For Children and team ever organized. The team plans to continue summary events in future to help and support local community. This was low budget event goal was to create awareness and help local community in need and mission was accomplished team went $2000 ahead of the budget. In addition, we had over 13,000 diapers to give away. Sanya’s class teacher Mrs. Dicke, her Principal Dr. Warner, Savage Mayor Janet came to event to support. Senator Amy Klobuchaar send the video recorded message to Sanya ad Team for the event. Ending poverty is everyone’s business. This event created awareness among 250 community people including youth, local families, and business (since vendors participated). Youth creatively share their experience in form of music, posters, talks, answering questions, social media and more. Sanya and team have demonstrated to the local community power of one by share this experience, thought their leadership, and success stories will be hard to measure but if any contributions to local poverty reduction efforts will be the alive example of small steps towards the bigger goal.

Collective Impact: Collective Impact community able to benefit over 13,000 diapers to under privilege families, there were food, resources, and monetary donations received. 385 head Start Families (these family of 4 makes less than $25,000 a year) was directly helped by many ways. Event achieved varies level of community engagement about need to help poor in our own local community.   

 

Community mobilizing and Change: Community mobilization was unique. This was first ever event organized by 5th graders. This event brought together the most innovative and inspiring examples of neighborhood action at its best and then invites us to accelerate our effectiveness by learning from one another and imagining how we can ensure our collective work has greater impact. I think this event facilitated and change how the mind set of people were about what a child could do for society, how small effort could turn into something big and more.

 

 

Event Sponsored by: Sunderland Family of New Prague MN, YSA (Youth Service America) Erik Westrum State Farm of Prior Lake MN and Other local vendors. CAP agency President Joe Vaughan, Head Start Director Laura and Team was a major help and beneficiary of the event. 100% Event Proceed will go to Head Start and CAP agency program.

 

 

Summer of Service grant: Sanya Pirani, a 5th Grader from Jeffers Pond Elementary school, has been awarded a Disney Summer of Service grant through YSA (Youth Service America). The grant will support Sanya Pirani in leading a community service project that addresses the issues of poverty in local and global communities. Sanya chose Head Start Awareness and Diaper drive to help local families in need. Sanya just recently started her own nonprofit organization called, “Sanya’s Hope for children.” Sanya’s Mission statement is “I strongly believe every child deserve the basic human rights like food, shelter, clothes, safety and education.” And soon she will be launching “Sanya’s Hope for Children” Market place to have sustainable income for her organization. Her goal is to spend 100% of the profit to help children in need. Currently, she have her compassion Jars, Book Mark for Help, and School bags. She will extend with beanies and T shirt.

 

Ms. Sanya Pirani is one of 340 young leaders across the country awarded a $500 Disney Summer of Service grant to organize projects to help make their communities healthier, greener and stronger. Grantees will educate and mobilize their peers around the issue of poverty, creating solutions through awareness, service, advocacy, and philanthropic activities. 

 

Sanya Hope For Children  (non profit organization) Founded in January 2017, SHFC (Sanya Hope For Children) supports a local & global impoverished children. Committed in helping children and transforming community one life at a time. With half the world’s population under age 25, SHFC’s mission is to help young people with basic necessities of life, fund educational endeavors, find their voice, take action, and make an impact on vital community issues.  For more information, and to donate to her causes visit http://www.sanyashopeforchildren.org

 

Sanya is founder/CEO as well as youth Ambassador of CAP agency for Scott, Dakota and Carver County. She is young of entrepreneur and philanthropist who has fed so far within 2 years 122,436 meals in Latent, Haiti via FMSC. In 2016 Sanya helped children via CAP agency projects and raised $8,979. She also has a successful food drive, locally and raised 1,364.4 pounds of food. She sewed over 100 bags filled with school supply and Christmas toy to helped local homeless children in 2016 Christmas. In addition, she raised a little over $1,500 for other projects and there are many more projects she have accomplished.

 

God Bless You!! 

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