Elephants Remember Joplin started because Cee Cee wanting to help the tornado victims in Joplin,MO. Her mother was kind enough to send me the back story about her daughter wanting to help and learning that even one person can make a difference. “I have to DO something” was the first thing my daughter said after we heard about the tornado in Joplin. She was curled up in a chair talking to me while I worked. I asked her what she wanted to do. She said that she wanted to knit toys for the children that had lost their homes…We had seen the pictures on the computer, I had heard a few of the stories…knitting toys was a nice gesture but the people of Joplin needed more than that. We talked about fundraisers and a read-a-thon my brother had done when he was five…this brought to mind many different options of how we could help monetarily also. In the end we had the idea ...