SADD Offers Students Opportunity to Make a Difference

By Lily Reynolds

There are so many ways to be involved in high school; clubs are a great way to get involved. Clubs are always looking for new members and ways to get people involved.

Students Against Destructive Decisions ( SADD ) puts on many events to get kids involved in positive actions. SADD organizes Red Cross blood drives to get the community involved in giving to people who need help. SADD also adopts a local family each holiday season to help provide for those in need.

“I got involved when my friends started going to the SADD meetings; I was curious about what it was all about,” says Alex Freese. Alex is a senior at Potosi High School who joined  SADD his junior year. “I enjoy seeing how we all come together to help other people; the feeling knowing that we are helping people is great.” Alex said the thing he most enjoys about SADD is the giving tree. The giving tree is where families who have limited resources apply to the county and people “adopt” a family for Christmas. The person who adopts the family provides some of their needs such as clothing, food, or toiletries.

“The other big event that SADD helps out with is hosting the Redcross blood drive.  I would definitely recommend this club to the younger classmen to start helping out,” says Alex.

“The reason I joined SADD was that I wanted to get involved in more clubs,” says Britany Horner. Brittany is a senior and has been involved in SADD since freshman year.  “I take away that just volunteering a couple times, it does make a difference, such as helping out at blood drives, seat belt check in the school parking lot, and the giving tree.”

SADD helps make kids realize what good actions can do to the community and how bad ones can affect them or families. “I think this club is for everyone and great for younger classman to join to show what negative actions affects have on your body and to encourage kids not to make bad decisions,” adds Brittany.

Andrew McKillip, a senior, has been in SADD for four years now. “I enjoy being a part of helping people in the community and throughout the country. My favorite event that we hold is probably the blood drive because it really feels like by helping, we are making a difference.”

“From SADD, you can take away that it does not take a huge amount of commitment to make a difference. We are able to make a big difference just by volunteering our time twice a year during each blood drive,” says Andrew.

Several members of SADD like giving back to the community. “It is not a lot of commitment, especially because the meetings are only once a month,” said Andrew. Helping out once in a while really does make the community look at the dedicated people,” says Alex Freese.