Please check here for any upcoming stuffed animal drives!
You can make a difference in your own community!
A stuffed animal drive is a great way to help children in your own community who could really use the comfort during traumatic and emotional situations. It is a free way that your community can work together to help others and also it is helping our planet by recycling stuffed animals that are in wonderful condition and shouldn't be thrown away. In November of 2008 Girl Scout Troop 1059 out of Strongsville, Ohio collected 1,215 stuffed animals for Metro Life Flight of Cleveland! Metro Life Flight is a critical care transport service who provide local and international service to children and adults in need of emergency services. These stuffed animals will be used for the flights as well as for children who are hospitalized at the Metro Health Medical Center.
Jennifer (and Girl Scout Troop 1059)~
Thanks for your efforts - Metro Life Flight appreciates it. With this many stuffed animals we are stocked for YEARS!! I cannot believe how many stuffed animals we have! We have shared with many departments at MetroHealth.
Thanks again Jennifer - you are part of an amazing thing! Your organization really makes a difference in the lives of kids!
B. Carr, RN, BSN, CEN, EMT-P
Chief Flight Nurse of Operations
Cleveland Metro Life Flight
MetroHealth Medical Center
Stuffed
animal drives are great community service projects, school group
projects, Girl Scout/Boy Scout projects and Mitsvah projects. These
drives really show children how they can help other children just by
giving away something they already have and don't use anymore.
If you are interested in doing your own stuffed animal drive for SAFE or another organization, please download the SAFE Stuffed Animal Drive Checklist below for more information on what to expect, how to find organizations that can use gently used and new stuffed animals, how to clean the stuffed animals and how to organize and distribute the stuffed animals.
Below is also a flyer I created to help advertise your drive. Please download it, insert your drive and contact information at the bottom and distribute. Please click below to download: SAFE flyer to advertise your drive
If you have any questions at all that are not answered here, please contact Jennifer by clicking here. Also, please contact Jennifer by clicking here to let me know when your stuffed animal drive is and I will post it on the site at the top!
Thank you so much for wanting to help your own community and recycle stuffed animals at the same time, it really does help so many children!