Projects :

Fall/Winter 2019 - Sports Kits

Our first project was raising funds to provide tribal schools in India with sports kits, as well as bicycles for students who were walking miles to commute to school. We successfully set up stalls at a Festival of India and Bathukamma event, where we offered chai complementary, and received a great number of donations.

Spring 2020 - Health Care Heroes

During the national surge of the Covid-19 pandemic, we provided health care workers with lunch from a local restaurant to show our immense appreciation and gratitude for them.

Summer 2020 - PURE Femme

Our first project with PURE Femme was to raise funds to manufacture sanitary napkins for young women in India. We successfully met our goals entirely virtually with our gofundme page.

Fall/Winter 2020 - Families Forward Charlotte

We supported our local homeless shelter by providing winter essential baskets for the struggling families in the first winter of the pandemic. We hosted a very safely organized essentials drive.

Spring 2021 - PURE Femme

Our second time supporting PURE Femme, we tried a different approach than the gofundme. We hosted a virtual trivia night, collecting funds by selling tickets. We got great feedback from this event, all participants saying they had competitive fun.

Summer 2021 - Vocational Training

When the restraints of the pandemic started to loosen, we took the opportunity to safely meet up in person after a year. We decided to sell mango lassi outside of a local Indian grocery store, where we received lots of money for vocational training for women in Uganda.

Winter 2021 - Second Harvest Food Bank

It was decided that another virtual fundraiser would be best for this project, for the safety of our ambassadors. We set up a webpage with our local food bank to raise funds to purchase food in bulk for the underprivileged. Every $1 donated raised 7 pounds of food, and we were able to raise a couple thousand pounds of food for our community!

Spring 2022- Rural Education in India

This time we decided to run two fundraiser projects, one at a local restaurant called Bayleaf, and the other at a local indian supermarket called Triveni, which we used in the summer of 2021 as well. Together we raised over 1000 dollars for our cause, which was a record breaking performance for us. By far our most successful project so far, and just showed to the team what we are capable of.

Summer 2022- Classroom Central

For our local project we as a chapter decided to help kids in underprivileged schools by raising supplies for an organization called classroom central. We raised hundreds of supplies from notebooks to pencils, as well as created flash cards to encourage students to learn. Overall a very successful project we completed even with many ambassadors away on break!

Winter 2022- PURE Wash

To help raise money for ZPHS schools in Andhra Pradesh, we resorted back to an older concept that has worked great in the past, which is setting up an informational stand at Triveni, a local indian supermarket. We were able to inform hundreds of people and raise over 500 dollars for this cause, meeting our goal. It was a great experience for the team which we celebrated with an Award Ceremony!

Team

There are some of us who started with PURE Youth Charlotte at it’s beginning in 2019, and we gained many more along the way until now. And though we are sad to have seen two of our former directors graduate - we are left with their best advice, and will follow in their footsteps.