Last year, Hannah Colvis started a food pantry at our school called “Just for Jackets”. This is a place where students who don’t have a lot of food at home or get hungry during the day can go and get food. Since Hannah Colvis has graduated, the NHS has taken over. Anyone can go to the media center and get food or they can donate food to the pantry.
Hannah developed this program through her involvement with the Women’s Leadership Initiative. The mission of the Initiative is to educate, inspire, and empower the generation of female leaders.
The program consists of two components: mentors and mentees. Mentors and mentees submitted information about their career field/career goals and statements about what they hoped to gain from a mentoring relationship. Mentor/mentee matches are based upon many different factors such as career interests, geographic proximity, and sometimes other factors such as similarity of personalities, shared interests, or mentorship goals. Together, Colvis and her mentor decided on a food pantry project.
She wanted her program to continue even after she graduated so she asked last year’s Junior about having NHS take it over for her and they were excited to take over.