“Bring the heat,” a new post on Walker County Schools’ Purposity app profile reads. “You can help a family keep warm with a space heater.”
“Fashion and Function,” a second one reads. “Kiddo needs shoes that fit for school.”
After seeing organizations in surrounding counties benefit from the locally developed app, the school district has joined in to help provide donations for students in need.
The app, with the catchphrase “A community proving humanity is good,” provides users with a catchy title and a short story about students and/or their families and a need that they personally have – a portable heater for their home or a new pair of shoes, for example.
Users are able to fund the requested item through a credit card payment, and the item is then purchased on Amazon and mailed to the school district for distribution.