Crisp Co. High School HOSA Club holds pop-up market fundraiser

CORDELE, Ga. – Over the weekend, the Crisp County High School HOSA program organized a fundraising event featuring a pop-up shop with various vendors, benefiting the Crisp community.

“Originally, this idea came about as a fundraiser for students that are going to state competition because of the high cost of hotel rooms and things like that. We were trying to build funds for them to go, and it just kind of blossomed into joining all these CTSOs of Crisp County High School so we could all have a chance, an opportunity to make money for all of our students,” said Nancy Mozo, Crisp Co. High HOSA Advisor.

Jeannie Anderson, Crisp County High Hosa Co-Advisor, provides further insight into the competitive events in which students will be participating.

“So, the purpose of the competition is to prepare the students for a career in health care and the competitions that we prepare them for are CPR, first aid, epidemiology, veterinary medicine, there are lots of choices for them to choose from; and they go to georgiahosa.org and choose whatever their interests may lie,” said Jeannie Anderson, Crisp Co. High HOSA Co-Advisor.

Crisp County High School HOSA President, Kenneth Haugabrook, and Vice President, Caleb Paul, discuss the motivations behind their decision to join the HOSA organization.

“I joined, because, Ms. Anderson, she really saw something in me that I didn’t see in myself. Her and Ms. Mozo, they both encouraged me, and now I’m the president,” said Kenneth Haugabrook, Crisp Co. High HOSA President.

“The first interaction when I came to school to open house my first year of high school. I immediately felt like Ms. Mozo and Ms. Anderson would treat me like I was their own. They have been treating me like that ever since I joined HOSA,” said Caleb Paul, Crisp Co. High HOSA Vice President.

HOSA is a great program and it makes you feel like your in a family.

De’Andra Jacobs reporting.

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