Near the end of my junior year of high school, several friends started screenprinting original designs onto t-shirts and donated the profits to an orphanage in Haiti. We made the shirts in my friends basement and sold shirts at a leadership camps, a school craft fair, and a monthly street fair in NE Portland. We did a lot in the summer of 2006 and then all got busy once school started. We sold some shirts last summer, and some of the members still keep the organization alive.

It was positive because we ended up donating $400-500 dollars to the orphanage. That is not very much at all considering how much time each of us put into it though. If we had all spent that time working for minimum wage we probably could have raised $5000. But I am glad we did it, because I know way more about screenprinting then I did beforehand. It was also a lot of fun.

Only looking at how much we helped the orphanage, it was unproductive. Taking into account what all of us got out of it, it was productive.