‘Tis the season all across the country – prom season that is. High school students are shelling the benjamins and bringin’ the bling for a night out on the town.
For many students, prom is the holy land of adolescent social life. You work toward it with class fundraisers, sometimes for all four years of your high school career. Your plans for the perfect night may even be enough motivation to pick up a part-time job to cover the expense.
Then there’s the checklist: perfect date, perfect tux or dress, perfect shoes, perfect hair, perfect “look”, restaurant, transportation, party, pictures, and on and on and on.
Is it any wonder that the average cost of attending prom, according to several national surveys, ranges from $1000-$1200 per couple?
If that number seems like no big deal, consider this one statistic from Feed the Children:
Just $7 will purchase 50 pounds of groceries for a hungry American family.
Now take it the next step – or two:
• If you add just $21 to your prom budget, you could purchase 150 pounds of food to help the hungry.
• If you and your date match the $1000 dollars you’ll spends on prom, you could purchase just under 7,150 pounds of food for hungry Americans.
• If your prom sells 100 tickets and every couple matches the average prom budget of $1000 with an equivalent donation, that’s 715,000 pounds of food to help end hunger in your area.
• If 1000 high schools across the country became “matching schools” and collectively sold 1,000,000 tickets…you get it…don’t you?
And this is just one example. Ending hunger, protecting the environment, joining the fight for clean drinking water, preventing the spread of AIDS and malaria in underdeveloped nations. What else might prom-goers be able to do if prom was not just the night of your life but also a night FOR your life?
Go to prom, have fun. Be safe. Heck, change the world, one prom season at a time.
Have Fun
Doing Prom Right
Prom Basics
Prom Tips
Party All Night Long
Be safe
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THINK Prom
Change the World
Free The Children
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Global Water
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