A few weeks ago, we had LIFT on the You Served Radio Show. This is a great program and a much better way of showing support to military families than planting a garden or picking up trash in their honor. LIFT (Like it for TIME), an organization created to raise public awareness of the 1% of the American population shouldering a decade of continuous war, invites school children to participate in the Month of the Military Child by making links to the LIFT LINK LOVE paper chain.
LIFT LINK LOVE (http://likeitfortime.com/lift-link-love) invites paper chain links from around the world sent in by military personnel, military family members, and civilians who want to “show the love” to military families. LIFT is excited to ask schools to offer this project to their students this month – the Month of the Military Child – as an opportunity for them reach out to their counterparts who have, or have had, a parent (or parents) deploy to war.
“Because the percentage of military families is so small when compared to the United States’ population as a whole,” says LIFT founder and Conn. resident Kristen Tsetsi, “children aren’t likely to know very many peers who have a deployed parent, so they may be somewhat less aware of what others their age are experiencing. This is a fun and creative way to tell the military kids, ‘We’re here for you.’”
Tsetsi, whose husband is a soldier in the Connecticut National Guard, says making links to a paper chain will inspire student creativity while inviting them to bridge the gap between themselves and children living both here and overseas in military families.
“They can write any message they like on the link,” Tsetsi says. “They can sign their name, glue something to it, write the name of someone they know, or even draw something or copy a song lyric or a favorite quote onto the link.”
Because April is the Month of the Military Child, this student project has a soft deadline of April 29. All links mailed to the central location will be added to the LIFT LINK LOVE paper chain.
Schools interested in participating should mail their students’ links FLAT to
LIFT LINK LOVE
9435 Lorton Market St #206
Lorton VA 22079
For more information about this project, visit http://likeitfortime.com/2011/04/11/kids-reaching-out-to-kids/
