Molly Connor

I am Molly, a senior at Bishop Kelly High School, and I have been a part of One Stone for about a year now. I have been more involved in One Stone’s Project Good more than ever this fall, but my most impactful project has been Families Living In Inspired Places, also known as FLIP. We reached out to CATCH, a local non-profit, and are partnering with them to provide families in our community who have recently experienced homeless with basic home necessities that often times get taken for granted, such as dressers. So far we have collected eight dressers, and we have started to refurbish two. My favorite part of Project Good in the past has been working with our end users personally, but because of COVID and difficulty communicating, this process has been delayed. But what has been continuously inspiring is knowing that there are over thirty high school students in FLIP who want to help those in our community who are in need. I decided to make this ceramics artifact to represent the families I want to continue to help. The families that FLIP serves have been through much hardship, and like my artifact, they still have a lot of love for each other and others who are willing to help them. It breaks my heart to know that families with children just like me or younger have to experience such hardship at such a young age. Working with this amazing group of peers over the past ten weeks, although it does break my heart, only inspires me more to continue to serve these families to help end their hardship or at least put a smile on their faces.