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Better World, What's Up December 19, 2011

We Care and the Truth About Snowflakes

By Angelina Spaniolo


Apparently, when it comes to snowflakes, we’ve been misinformed.

Adriana, a young and energetic participant in We Care, fills me in, “There’s a factory up in the clouds, stamping the snow, and that’s what’s shaping the snowflakes. They could be the same or different—it depends.”

It’s undetermined whether this explanation had anything to do with the holiday card she was decorating at the time—covered in silver ink-stamped snowflakes.

Here in Holland, Michigan, Adriana was one of 150 kids stamping, gluing, and coloring during the Herman Miller-sponsored arts and crafts extravaganza known as We Care.

Steve Hightower, a Herman Miller employee and avid volunteer of five years, said his favorite part is “seeing the kids smiling and running around. They get a chance to do crafts that maybe they wouldn’t otherwise. It’s really cool.”

This year marks We Care’s 15th anniversary of our partnership with Boys and Girls Clubs of America and local design firms. We Care reaches 27 communities nationwide (with two in Canada), and this holiday, more than 6,000 youngsters came to craft.

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