Key Club Donates to Local Women’s Shelter

Marco Island Academy’s Key Club and the students involved constantly brainstorm new service projects, organizations, or causes to commit to helping others. With the majority of the Key Club’s volunteer time consumed by helping local organizations and people within the community, the club determined that contributing donations and supplies to the Shelter for Abused Women and Children would be a great way to uplift others and make a positive impact in the community.

Key Club leadership promoted the project and motivated students to bring in a number of important items, such as toys to make fun bags for the shelter children and hygiene products to make toiletry bags for the adults. Students could supply hygiene products such as shampoo, toothpaste, floss, soap, deodorant, mouthwash, menstrual products, shaving cream, etc. In addition, students also provided children’s supplies such as stickers, small coloring books, bracelets, nail polish, accessories, bubbles or toy cars. 

On Thursday, March 30th, Key Club students created an assembly line to pack the bags and write notes to the children and women in the shelter. Assembling the care packages had the students labeling and decorating the bags.

The Collier County Shelter for Abused Women and Children operates a 24-hour Crisis Line, two 60-bed emergency shelters in Naples and Immokalee, and nine Transitional Living cottages in the county. The Shelter’s Mission, as found on its website, is to “lead and collaborate with the community to prevent, protect and prevail over domestic violence and human trafficking.”

To learn how to donate or volunteer, visit the Shelter for Abused Women and Children at

https://naplesshelter.org/donate/. Supporting local organizations and charities is a great way to positively impact the community and help to improve the lives of others.