Letter of Intent

Senior Project Letter of Intent

715 Jack’s Rd.

Hessmer, LA  71341

February 10, 2015

Avoyelles Public Charter School

201 Longfellow Rd.

Mansura, LA 71350

Dear Senior Project Committee:

My general area of interest for this project was community service. I was interested in doing something a little out of the ordinary. Most people, when considering doing community service think of volunteering at a shelter, or giving to needy children. I wanted to give back to those who are always forgotten because of a mistake that they made.

My senior project is to distribute hygiene items to the women’s prison in Cottonport. This event will be sponsored by the Avoyelles Public Charter School Chapter of the National Honor Society and will be carried out as the service project for the Sophomore, Junior, and Senior classes. During one class period on a designated day students will walk through an assembly line to package and wrap a gift for an inmate. Students will then travel by bus on two different days with class sponsors to the prison and will be escorted through the prison to the bunks of the inmates. Students will then take about fifteen minutes to visit and give their personally wrapped and packaged gift to their inmate. I think this project will be a stretch for me because I have never taken on a full project such as this. It will be challenging to get all items to the school to be packaged, account for all inmates so no one is forgotten, and the most difficult challenge will be to try to touch the hearts of my fellow classmates by participating in this project. We are applying for a grant for Walmart in hopes to cover the cost of this project. The expected cost of this project is about $400 after our grant, if it is approved.

Mrs.Donna Saucier and Mrs. Julie Roy will be my mentors for this project. I plan to visit the women’s prison to speak with the prison director, Mrs.Coretha, to gather more information on what exactly we could contribute to the prisoners during the Christmas season. Also while meeting with the prison director, we will discuss possible days to visit the prison to distribute the gifts. Mrs.Coretha has been the director of the prison for over twenty years and has seen how hard the holiday season is on some of the incarcerated.

This project represents a learning stretch for me for many reasons. This project will teach me the responsibility of carrying out a full project, much larger than a regular school project. I will have to sit down with superiors to discuss my ideas in a more professional way than what I am normally use to. More importantly this project will stretch my views of people, this project will teach me to be more compassionate and caring for others which will help me later on in my career as a registered nurse. I understand that if I in anyway plagiarize during the course of this project, that I will receive a failing grade on my Senior Project, and may not receive my diploma, therefore not graduating with my class on time.

Sincerely,

Kaitlynn Jones