The National Honor Society has taken on various projects throughout the years where they helped organizations and communities within and outside the school. They were first planning to help the Organizacion de Ninos con Cancer, but after realizing that it was too big of a project for them, they decided to follow Maggie Chumbley’s advice instead. She proposed NHS members to help smaller projects that can make a big impact, and also to help the organizations that we have at CIPLC already, such as TLC and GIN.
Because of this, NHS chose their next project: it is simpler yet powerful, and students get to participate intensively rather than only participating in fundraisers. The new project is called “Tapas Por Vida”.
Tapas Por Vida is an organization with a double goal: recycle plastic and at the same time save lives. The money collected from the caps from plastic bottles go to help people with cancer. Therefore, NHS is still actually helping the organization for kids with cancer, which was their intention in the first place.
How do they do this, you may wonder? Tapas Por Vida works like this: first you collect any plastic caps and take them to the main recollection centers. The recollection centers in Puerto La Cruz are located in Farmacia SAAS and Sweet Cakes Store. These centers are in charge of giving it to the organization. The organization sells the plastic and uses the money earned as donations and others ways of helping the organization of people with cancer.
The main organization in charge of recycling the caps is located in Valencia. Valencia then sends the caps to Maracaibo where they go through a special process to finally be reused in other ways.
For every 2000 caps they collect, a chemotherapy is paid for a patient. Any caps are accepted: water bottles, toothpaste, etc. Also, they accept plastic phone cards!
What NHS will do is have each class collect caps, and whoever collects the most will be rewarded with a special prize. In addition, boxes will also be located throughout the school for those that want to contribute further, and for staff members to also participate. The boxes will be collected at the end of every week and then taken to the recollection centers.
So, if every one of CIPLC’s 200 students brought in 10 plastic caps, we would have awarded a cancer patient with a free chemotherapy! Plus, plastic caps are extremely easy to find: at school, at home, and on the streets. Not only students can help, anyone can. Feel free to collect with your families and help this project!
By: Carolina Franco
Because of this, NHS chose their next project: it is simpler yet powerful, and students get to participate intensively rather than only participating in fundraisers. The new project is called “Tapas Por Vida”.
Tapas Por Vida is an organization with a double goal: recycle plastic and at the same time save lives. The money collected from the caps from plastic bottles go to help people with cancer. Therefore, NHS is still actually helping the organization for kids with cancer, which was their intention in the first place.
How do they do this, you may wonder? Tapas Por Vida works like this: first you collect any plastic caps and take them to the main recollection centers. The recollection centers in Puerto La Cruz are located in Farmacia SAAS and Sweet Cakes Store. These centers are in charge of giving it to the organization. The organization sells the plastic and uses the money earned as donations and others ways of helping the organization of people with cancer.
The main organization in charge of recycling the caps is located in Valencia. Valencia then sends the caps to Maracaibo where they go through a special process to finally be reused in other ways.
For every 2000 caps they collect, a chemotherapy is paid for a patient. Any caps are accepted: water bottles, toothpaste, etc. Also, they accept plastic phone cards!
What NHS will do is have each class collect caps, and whoever collects the most will be rewarded with a special prize. In addition, boxes will also be located throughout the school for those that want to contribute further, and for staff members to also participate. The boxes will be collected at the end of every week and then taken to the recollection centers.
So, if every one of CIPLC’s 200 students brought in 10 plastic caps, we would have awarded a cancer patient with a free chemotherapy! Plus, plastic caps are extremely easy to find: at school, at home, and on the streets. Not only students can help, anyone can. Feel free to collect with your families and help this project!
By: Carolina Franco