Expanding our newspapers' benefits

That's right, just as the title suggests, Cveta and I have decided to extend our newspaper to not only cover its natural purposes of delivering information to the eager readers, but to also enable us to be more ecologically-friendly and well-aware of the surrounding world. With the additions, we hope to encourage the population of our school to seek and use any opportunity they can to aid our planet and its peoples.

The first advancement is the idea of recycling the newspaper; it may seem trivial, albeit we will be issuing around 200 copies of about 4-5 A4 sheets, which would otherwise simply end up in dustbins when that significant amount of paper could be reused with a benefit to the environment; moreover, we will ask both the students and the teachers to contribute to the general pile with newspapers brought in from home, for it is evident that there must be allegiant readers in a fair few families. The collected material we will then transfer to the nearest recycling facility, with a small portion being donated to the art department for further creative usage. To make the compiling process more efficient, I have decided to make a special box which will be used as a drop-off facility: I began with some plain cardboard which I then decorated with old newspapers (I believe that too counts as recycling...) and a fancy label welcoming people to dispose of unwanted material.  

The attractive label

Overall view of the box

The other change that we have decided to implement into our work is a fund-raiser: we realised that it is of vital importance for the school as a community to donate money to those in great need, and gathering finances through our service seemed like a workable idea. As of right now, we don't have a concrete charity or cause that we will be collecting the funds for, albeit we plan to find one as soon as possible; we chose to set up a coin jar in the hallway of the school, next to the recycling box, to attract greater attention from the students and the teachers; through the newspaper itself we shall alert them both of the significance of our enterprise and our desire to get everyone involved. The jar has been designed and renovated by me in attempt to make it noticeable and potentially capable of collecting large amounts; as a sort of an encouragement, I have placed a few coins and a note into it so that it wouldn't appear empty upon placement.

Frontal shot of coin jar

Piggy-bank style opening

I will further keep updating information concerning both the recycling and fund-raising activities in order to create a legible account of their progressions. We may add a few more tweaks to the newspaper because we see it as a great opportunity to expand our knowledge of the school population and involve everyone in various beneficial events.