DELPHOS — Jefferson’s Future Career and Community Leaders of America chapter is preparing to “Ignite Leadership” during National FCCLA Week, Feb. 11-15. Several activities are planned for the students during the week.

All week long, there will be a competition amongst the grade levels to collect pop can tabs and wish-list items for the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio (Columbus) and NW Ohio (Toledo). Ronald McDonald Houses provide a “home-away-from-home” for families so they can stay close by their hospitalized child at little or no cost. The houses are built on the simple idea that nothing else should matter when a family is focused on healing their child – not where they can afford to stay, where they will get their next meal or where they will lay their head at night to rest.

Ronald McDonald House Charities believes that when a child is hospitalized, the love and support of family is as powerful as the strongest medicine prescribed.