Granny's House, Columbia Missouri

This fall at Granny’s House, we have had an incredible number of groups doing service projects for us! This has been such an great blessing for the 60-70 children attending Granny’s House every day! Many groups come in the afternoon and set up a craft or special project for the children while other groups have brought children to different places, like the Hearnes Center or to the Mizzou Rec Center for a fun fieldtrip! The children have absolutely loved these outings and the volunteers have been so much fun.

Greek 12:20 set up a great event with Mizzou Volleyball. We had fun activities before the game and then all sat together to watch the Mizzou women’s volleyball team beat Baylor.

The Diverse Student’s Association came the week before Halloween and did some great crafts with the children! The children had such a wonderful time and this group came up with some really creative craft ideas!

The following groups all came from the Trulaske College of Business at Mizzou:

--The first group gathered enough Halloween costumes for all of the children, and then some! The children had such a wonderful time picking out halloween costumes and we had so many children parents thank us for these great costumes!

--The second group decided to sell t-shirts on the Mizzou campus to raise money for Granny’s House. This was a fun and creative way for them to raise money for Granny’s House. The t-shirts are black with gold writing. They are only 7$! To order a t-shirt, please e-mail pam@grannyshouse.org

--Group number three took us to the Mizzou Rec Center! We had such a fun Saturday morning with this group! They arranged for Granny’s House children to use two basketball courts at the Mizzou Rec Center! They also provided snacks and drinks for the children. This was such a fun way to expose the children to the University and all it has to offer! They also raised money to contribute to the Granny’s House christmas store!

--The final group from the College of Business is organizing a outdoor toy and ball drive for us! This is such a great need at Granny’s House, since we go through outdoor toys so quickly. These students are exchanging payment for their services to the members of the faculty of the College of Business. These services range from organizing, babysitting, to cleaning. Their goal is to raise $500.00 and they are well on their way to that goal!

Eta Sigma Delta is a honors society from Hotel and Restaurant Management at Mizzou. This wonderful organization brought us an entire meal of food, along with creative turkey crafts for the children to make. They also brought Truman the Tiger with them! This was such an incredibly fun day for the kids.

A HUGE thank you to all of these groups! these have been such a great group of students, and everyone was such a pleasure to work with! THANK YOU!

--mary kate