Kind Kid Spotlight

Welcome to this month's Kind Kid Spotlight! We are so excited for you to meet Erin Scott, a senior at Arundel High School, embracing the role of giving back to others through kindness and love. Erin's heart is bursting with ideas on how to spread kindness to others and she even encouraged her entire school community to join her for a special campaign. Ms. Stawas, an administrator at Arundel High School, shared Erin's story with us! Beautiful work, Erin!

Erin grew up with a brother who has PCD, a severe illness that left him going in and out of hospitals frequently his whole life. Watching him go through this experience where he spent so much time in and out of hospitals and missing out on typical childhood events, Erin had the idea to start a charity inspired by him. She wanted to give other children like her brother the opportunity to feel a little less scared and stressed while at the hospital and provide them with a sense of comfort. Erin started “A Sister’s Love” seven years ago, and she has delivered creative care packages to some of the local hospitals including Johns Hopkins, University Of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, along with Children’s Hospital (where her brother spent a lot of time). But the amazing part about Erin's mission is that she has taught so many other students to be empathetic and to join her cause. Most recently, she launched a campaign at Arundel High School to collect play dough for Johns Hopkins Children's Hospital. She called in "Play Doh for Dough." She created lessons with which she taught the whole school about PCD and also how Play Doh can be more than a toy but also a stress relieving tool for hospitalized children. Then she created a competition for classes to collect Play Doh. The classes who collected the most Play Doh won a pizza party (the dough). Erin's goal was to collect 500 cans of Play Doh. She exceeded her goal by collecting over 3,400 cans of Play Doh. The Child Life Specialists at Johns Hopkins were so amazed by not only the generous donation but also her ability to ignite and educate a whole school to support her cause. I'm confident that Erin has inspired and paved the way for future kindness changemakers at Arundel and we can't wait to see the next act of kindness blossom all because of Erin!