Please vote!!

A few years ago my church started a project where we assembled backpacks for homeless people. The project was created by Carol, who always drives by homeless people on her way to work downtown Minneapolis. She started talking to a couple shelters about creating a backpack to store some essentials and what those essentials would include. The bags include a blanket, rain poncho, water bottle, first aid kit, pen and paper, toothpaste and toothbrush, brush or comb, etc. Union Gospel Mission and Simpson Shelter have been recipients of the bags.

And now, the project is a semi-finalist for a $15,000 grant and it needs your vote!!

Please go to http://www.givehappychallenge.com and vote for Carol (she's the one in a blue shirt with an orange bag). Voting is everyday into June and will be done in a couple different rounds.

And please pass this on! We could create and distribute a lot of backpacks with the money.