Operation Lamp Post is doing very well! I've just added a third way to get another lamp post in the park--which I'm hoping to have filled with 25 lamp posts before long.
After 25 lamp posts have been added, I'm going to switch habitats to a holiday-themed one. Optimistically, I've already gone shopping for some really cool Halloween decorations and hope to have a Halloween-themed habitat up for Throw Rug and friends really soon!
I will include the 25 lamp posts in that habitat as a celebration!
Although no more lamp posts will be added to the habitat after that, I hope that the kinds of outreach actions earning these lamp posts will continue!
Here are the three ways that lamp posts can be earned:
I will include the 25 lamp posts in that habitat as a celebration!
Although no more lamp posts will be added to the habitat after that, I hope that the kinds of outreach actions earning these lamp posts will continue!
Here are the three ways that lamp posts can be earned:
- For every $100 total of donations sent to our headquarters. This would be a total of donations, so it wouldn't all have to come from one person.
- For every ten TLC packages sent to us. It doesn't matter what size. It can be a small package (like a large envelope filled with gift cards to national fast-food and/or store chains), or it could be anywhere from a small box to a huge crate of items listed on our wish list. When a total of ten arrive at our headquarters, another one of the 25 lamp posts I have waiting in the wings will be placed in the park.
- Finally, the newest way for another one of the lamp posts to make its appearance: for every ten signatures to the petition that will be going to President Obama asking him to declare the second Saturday of every October to be Youth Outreach Day. You can read more about this--as well as finding a link leading to the petition by going here.
Passers-by will see this going on, stop by to ask questions, and will also get into the spirit of things. They will offer to give Russell money to help with the mission, and Russell will ask them to give it directly to the kids, as they will know what they need the most.
There are more kids who stay in seclusion than come out in the open at this time, and those kids who are more out in public view will buy food, personal care items, etc. to take to the ones in hiding.
These kinds of donations don't even arrive at our headquarters, and their amount can only be estimated, and I'll place one or more lamp posts to recognize those gifts using the estimates given to me by Russell.
As of this writing (a little after noon, Anderson, Indiana time, on October 22, 2009), 14 of the 25 lamp posts have already been placed in the park, and they're just beautiful!
I can hardly wait to collect all 25 and place them in a more cheerful scene!!!
To take a look at pictures of how the park looked with no lamp posts and how the park looks at the time of this writing, please click on these two links...
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