Student-led community action plan created and presented during an Ambassador Leadership Summit in 2019 at Harvard University.

1. Helping Kids At the Border
Changing the World, One Hand at a Time
By: Helpers of Change

2. Our Big Goal
Our Big Goal is to provide children along the border
with the supplies they need to stay healthy and fed.
We want these kids to feel as if they are not
alone, because they aren’t. We may not understand
what they are going through, but maybe we can
give them a taste of what the world world was like,
before they went into this traumatic process. We
can help them stay healthy, clean, and fed.

3. The Vision
Whenweaccomplishour biggoal,ourvisionisthattheRedCross,
withour fundraising,willbeabletoreachthekidsinMexicothat
needourhelp.IftheRedCrossisabletoreachthekids,theycan
deliversuppliestothesechildrenbeforetheygoover theborder
andintothecagesthattheU.S.isholdingthemin.

4. Action Plan
1. Raise awareness
2. Raise money by sales
3. Give money to our non-profit partners - American
Red Cross & Joseph Project

5. Raising Awareness
● We are trying to raise awareness for the children at the border
who are being held in cages.
● We are trying to raise awareness about the children at the U. S.
Mexico border. These children have been separated from their
parents. They have been treated poorly, and in harsh conditions.
● They have been given aluminum foil blankets and have been
treated badly emotionally, physically, and mentally.

6. Raising Money by Sales
1) Bake Sale//In this bake sale, we will be selling lemonade
and cookies. The lemonade and cookies are one dollar each.
2) Marathon//We will also be holding a marathon and passing
out water every mile.
3) Bracelets//-We will be selling bracelets in our communities
to raise money. The bracelets will be rubber and are three
dollars a piece. They will say “Helpers of Change. Save the
Children.

7. Partners
● AMerican Red Cross
○ non-Profit organisation
○ Give basic living supplies
Past 6 Months of
Donations
● Over 8,500 cots
● Over 20,000 Blankets
● Over 100 shelter workers on the border

8. Partners
● The Joseph Project
○ Non-profit Organisation
○ they get food from feeding the gulf coast food bank
○ they also give out hygiene items on occasions

9. Statistics
Year 2015//39,970 children are put in detention centers
Year 2016//59,692 children
Year 2017//41,435 children
Year 2018//32,372 children
Year 2018// 1500 children who can’t find their parents
Year 2019//11,507 children are held at the border
The Mexican Border is holding 11.6 million

10. Advertisement
● Make a poster
● I have a rap that I will be presenting at the
end of this presentation
● Spread it to the audience
● Contact a large company
Rap Lyrics: I see all these kids in cages, man this getting
out of hand…. Down by the border this mess is trash. We gotta
get them out quick like the Flash. Guess what a twelve year
old boy said he gets no food he’s starved to death. Look at
these kids they’ve got nothing left. These Guys rob them you
can call it theft. I think we might have a plan we have to
give em a helping hand we have to fight and take a stand We
gonna scare the guards like the boogeyman. Speak the truth
like a weatherman. We have to soar like Peter Pan. Song
Credits: Shotty Willy

11. ● These are the conditions the children at the border are living in.
● This is one of the main reasons why our group chose this mission
plan to help these unfortunate children.

12. What We Can Do At Home To Help
● One thing we can do at home is make rubber bracelets that say
“Helpers of Change. Save the Children.”
● Another way we are going to help is by raising awareness.
● Set up marathons.
● Bake sales.
● Food drives or clothing drives (people buy food and give it to them
extra that is unopened, if they don't have enough or no money they
can give clothes if they have way too much or just want to help.
● We are going to contact our peers, school, and our church to see if
they can help with our action plan.

13. What’s it like in the Border Patrol Station?
1. They sleep on the concrete floors
2. Many are sick and aren’t sleeping
3. They’re almost all depressed and traumatized
4. They have no access to soap and medical care
5. They’re cold and hungry while they are being crowded into cages
6. Babies are struggling to keep clean and warm
7. The guards are aggressive
8. The children don’t get any care, except from the other children held there
9. They didn’t have adequate food, water, and sanitation
10. They have tin foil as a blanket, they have no pillow

14. Credits/ cited sources
https://www.npr.org/
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/claudiakoerner/children-border-detention-conditions-immigrants-hungry
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/claudiakoerner/children-border-detention-conditions-immigrants-hungry
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/26/how-to-donate-to-help-migrant-children-at-the-
border.html?&qsearchterm=immigrant%20children
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/06/21/mexico-border-crisis-detained-immigrant-children-not-
guaranteed-soap/1521726001/
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/25/18715725/children-border-detention-kids-cages-immigration

15. Our Group
Team Leader : Ms. Cindy Woods
Izzy M. V. Alyssa N.
Sanjana C. David A.
Marcaylla L. J. Isaac S.
Sierra S. Finlay L.
Susannah S. Jacobo B.
Alesha F.

16. Any Questions?