Karen Wright

Period 4

1/10/19

Persuasive Essay

Donate to Utah Foster Care

About 40,000 infants are placed in foster care every year. On average, children stay in the system

for almost three years (31 months) before either being reunited with their families or adopted. Almost 20

percent wait five years or more. Children have on average three different foster care placements. I would

like to raise money to help these kids. To be specific, the kids that are in the Utah Foster Care system. I

chose this campaign to improve the lives of children who often find themselves forgotten and feel like

they don't belong to anyone. For my campaign, I would like to create a website that the goal to reach

would be $1,000 for the Utah foster care.

To accomplish this goal of raising 500 for Utah Foster Care, I will first be creating a website

where, anybody that is willing to donate money, will go to that website and donate the amount of money

they wish to donate. The money that citizens donate will go to supplies such as food, clothes, toys, and

families that will adopt a child. “Utah Foster Care relies on the generosity of community members like

you to provide supports that enhance the lives of children and “normalize” their foster care experience.”

To help spread the word to donate to this cause, I will be promoting the campaign in 3 ways. One

way is creating flyers to pass out to my friends that I go to church with every Sunday. I easily have the

supplies and materials needed to make these flyers at home. One of my leaders at church works at the

Foster Care and said that she will help me promote it. My second way of promoting the campaign is to
create posters and put them on the school walls, so that all the kids in the Copper Hills High school, can

see and donate. Creating these posters will be very easy also. I may need to spend a few dollars on getting

the posters, but other than that, it won't cost that much. The third way that I will advertise my campaign

publicly is to start a campaign on instagram and post information there. If anyone wants to get a hold of

me they can direct message me. This obviously will be free because it is a free program.

The time spent on this project will be at least six hours. This will be achieved by spending time

buy the posters, spending the time creating the posters. Spending time buying and creating the flyers.

Spending time creating an Instagram account, and continually posting information on it. Spending time

going to the Utah Foster Care and to see new information to post on my Instagram account.

Help all the foster kids find a home, by donating money I chose to start this campaign so we can

give children a home to go to, a chance to start, and a family to love. We make a living by what we get,

but we make a life by what we give. So have a heart and give a child a start.

Ms. Tibbitts (teacher):_______________________________________