We had some amazing project leaders last year. Thanks to all of you! Many qualified for the Humanitarian Heart Scholarship and the winners have been awarded their money and trips. Shortly we will have more information for you to read about the winners.

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Here are a few great tips in the meantime for you to read from some of our most successful project leaders:

  • My experience with the YUDA Band Project really opened my eyes to what service truly is about.
  • Success was due to the passion that I felt while doing this project
  • The best strategy that never failed was showing people how excited I was about the project. By sharing the stories of the students and their families, their hardships, struggles, it makes the project more relatable to the first-world person, allowing them to understand what humanitarianism and service to your fellow man means
  • The YUDA Band did not just represent a scholarship for someone in another country; to me it represents hope and opportunity.

- Leanne Empinado

  • Once they found out [what they were for, students] were not concerned about the fact that they were seven dollars, some even gave donations of more than that amount.
  • This project brought our school together and more importantly our community.

- Casey Blankenship

  • Personally it showed me that I am very fortunate to be in the position that I am and I should never take anything for granted.
  • Just knowing that my team and I were able to raise enough money to send three Guatemalan children to school for a year was incredibly rewarding.

- Jade Capezzuto

  • During class, a girl was showing off her YUDA band and a boy asked why she would buy a band for $7?  She told him that each band contributes to giving a child in another country and education for a year. Funny enough, the boy was seen wearing a YUDA band a day later.

- Laszlo Sandor

  • Once they found out [what they were for, students] were not concerned about the fact that they were seven dollars, some even gave donations of more than that amount.
  • This fundraiser brought our school together and more importantly our community.

- Casey Blankenship

  • Seeing what just seven dollars could do, really put the students into the attitude of making a difference.
  • People that weren’t even on the team were walking with us to sell
  • As we came to our final sales, some students would buy multiple bracelets just because they knew how important it was to the students we were sponsoring.

- Benjamin St. Cyr

  • It helped the students, as well as the faculty, really understand a serious international problem.

- Mary Clark

  • The YUDA Band project is absolutely wonderful. It taught me so much.
  • People we didn’t even know were contacting us willing to help our cause.
  • I realized that in our great country we take for granted all of the wonderful things we have.

- Jacy Crosby

  • The YUDA Bands project was a unique opportunity that proved to me that individuals in my school have the capability and the desire to care about something much larger than themselves.
  • Countless students were eager to find a way to make the world a better plea, many simply did not know where to begin.

- Darcy Arends

  • I have yet to see a project that has received such tremendous cooperation as YUDA Bands.
  • One student sold sixty bracelets all on her own!

- Charles Shutlz

  • For about three weeks it felt like I had basically invested my life in the YUDA band project – and I loved every minute of it.

- Alyssa Cody

Do you have something to add? We would love to hear how YUDA Bands has affected your life!