THS Service Learning students and Key Club members along with the PE department encouraged students in grades 9-12 to form teams of 15-20 students to compete in a double elimination tournament to raise money for Haiti relief. A faculty jeans day was also organized to help sponsor the teams. 7 teams competed and approximately 150 students participated in the tournament. Students were asked to donate a minimum of $5 to play and outside donations were collected to offset the cost of a tournament t-shirt. Service Learning students designed a t-shirt bearing the image of Haiti's flag and their motto: "Unity Makes Strength".

Dear friends,
A Seminar on prepardness for Disaster was organized. The village president tookpart as chief guest and innaugurated the events. our youthcultural team conducted street play on DISASTER Management. other details will be post later.
Thank you.
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Hello to everyone!

My name is Elina and I am 8th grade students at Bokonbaev School. I live in Bazar- Korgon, Kyrgyzstan. I organized project “Healthy girls” for GYSD at my school on April 23. My friends Janylai, Shahida, Aijan, Jainagul, Maftuna, Muhayo and Sevara helped me teaching. We taught girls about HIV/ AIDS, TB, Rabies and Meningitis. First, I was very scary, because I thought elementary grades don’t listen to me. But they were listening to me. I was very happy. I gave information about how prevent illness, signs and causes of HIV/ AIDS. After one day they said thanks for me and said “Its good idea to teach us about health, because we don’t have information about illnesses

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14 middle school boys who are participants in Communities In Schools' XY-Zone group chose disaster and emergency preparedness as the fullfillment of their "Reaching Out" project. These boys were in the 1st and 2nd grade when they were forced to evacuate New Orleans because of Katrina. They remember the chaos for them, their families and neighbors. As we began to plan the project, the boys were keenly aware of the tragedies for the families in Haiti and Chile. In addition, early predictions for hurricane season were beginning to show up in the media. So, they decided they wanted to be sure that members of the community would have some tools to help them prepare for emergencies. We looked for activities that were happening during GYSD week, and found that the Young Leadership Council, a group of 1200 professionals, were featuring nonprofit groups at their spring concert series at Lafayette Square in the heart of New Orleans. These concerts are free to the public so they are usually crowded. The boys planned out what they wanted to focus on how they would communicate the information to concert attendees. They decided to focus on making sure everyone knew the emergency numbers to call both before and after an emergency happens. In New Orleans, you have to be sure you find out about the status of the roads because there aren't many ways to get out of the city. So, they had t-shirts made with the phone numbers on the back and wore the shirts to attract attention. They gave away flashlight keychains (because the power was out for a LONG time after Katrina) and they gave out refrigerator magnets with the numbers. More than 200 people stopped by the tent and listened to the boys give advice to be prepared!

Global Potential provides urban youth from low-income communities with the skills and perspective that enable them to make positive change in their lives, communities, and the global community. In July, Global Potential youth embark on a 6 week journey of community service in a rural village in the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Haiti. On April 24, our youth from all over Brooklyn are coming together to kick-off their year of community service, while learning about Nicaragua. Volunteers will discuss the projects they will undertake, make concrete plans, and discuss these plans with a country advisor.

YPWC together with its MDGs club of Pekyi Islamic Basic School will be partnering with the Rotaract club members of Kumasi Polytechnic school to plant 200 ornamental trees at Pekyi No 2 to help green the earth on Saturday 24th April at 9:00am. There will be a forum on the importance of afforestation and the need for the youth to go into farming, how youth can help preserve the environment by the Kumasi Forestry Commission.

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A regional online women's publication - gulfcoastwomanonline.com - will feature community youth leaders who have been selected for service to their community. The 'shining stars' will be featured in the May online edition. An article about Global Youth Service Day will also be featured, talking about the impact that our youth have on a community, region and the world.

'Shining star' award certificates from the publisher will be presented to each community youth leader selected. The youth leaders will be selected from Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas - from cities along the Gulf Coast Region.

YPWC will be engaging different youth groups in Kumasi for a radio discussion on youth; challenges, opportunities,the role of the youth and the government policy for the youth at Garden City Radio 92.1 i Kumasi at 5:00pm to 6:00pm on 23rd April, 2010 during the drive time with DJ Assosca.

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Come help us bag food for Haitian kids at Apex Community Church. We're aiming for 128,570 meals bagged (1/2 Semi load/ $18,000.00) Sign up for a 2 hour shift or more if you're able. Saturday, April 24, 8am-8pm Sunday, April 25, 8am-4pm. To sign up to help, leave your contact information at feedhaitiproject@gmail.com and the 2 hour time block you would like to help starting at 8,10,12,2,4 or 6 on Saturday or 8,10,12, or 2 on Sunday. We encourage you to help us fund the shipping costs by gathering sponsorship with checks written to Apex with "Region 2 Haiti" in the memo line. If you are unable to attend we would gladly accept any financial support you can afford as the shipping costs are great and can be directed to Apex with "Region 2 Haiti" in the memo line. For more information www.apexcommunity.org . You can email feedhaitiproject@gmail.com with questions and to register to help.

The 6-8 grade students at Merrill Middle School will be packaging food with Kids Against Hunger on Friday, April 23rd. Each package we put together will provide 6 nutritionally complete meals that will go to those in need. Currently, 90% of the food is being sent to Haiti for earthquake relief. Each meal costs Kids Against Hunger $.25, so the students at Merrill have been working hard to raise money that will cover the costs of food and transportation of the packages to where they need to go. We had a spirit week, where students could pay a dollar each day to participate in events, a student vs. staff basketball game, a pancake dinner, and a dance, just to name a few. We also had great support from our community members, and we were able to raise the $5,000 needed for Kids Against Hunger to bring the mobile packaging unit to Merrill for the entire student body to package food. For more information on the packaging event and Kids Against Hunger, go to http://www.outreachafrica.org/food.php.

Uhai Lake Forum, a registered NGO founded in 1999 addresses the issues of resource and environmental conservation in Lake Victoria region. It uses the forums approach in promoting the participation of community in natural resource governance and conservation. Thus, it has instituted an annual commemorative advocacy forum known as Lake Victoria Day which acts as a platform for awareness creation, information dissemination, advocacy, lobbying and capacity building of the local communities to shoulder their responsibilities on lake resource governance and conservation.
The Lake Victoria Day Forum was initiated because of the numerous problems it faced such as pollution, hyacinth invasion, disappearance of indigenous fish species, use of illegal fishing gears, poor fish handling and due to the fact that the lake is the single major resource in the area which also influences the lifestyles, culture and economic sustenance of the riparian communities in this region.

The inaugural post Lake Victoria Day Forum was held on 14th April 2000 at Dunga beach in Kisumu. The second was marked from 12th to 14th April 2001 at Koginga beach in Homabay. The third was held in Marenga beach in Port Victoria, Busia district while the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh forums were held in Muhuru Bay in Migori, Ringiti Island in Suba,Uhanya beach in Bondo districts and at Abwogo River Bank in Nyando district respectively. The eighth forum was commemorated on the neighborhood of River Nzoia at Sega Township in Siaya district while the ninth was held at Bala beach in Nyakach district.Last year’s forum was marked again at Marenga beach in Budalangi district and was themed “Community Action for the Restoration of Lake Victoria Basin.”

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We Care Act is proud to launch “a month for making a difference” that challenges our team leaders and others in our community to make a difference. Please see our website www.wecareact.org for more details about our organization. We would like to ask everyone to try to do something to help the community: either to help the earth to get greener (April 22 is Earth Day) such as clean a park, clean the road in front of your house, start a recycling program, or raise funds for disaster victims by organizing any event. We would like everyone to try and play your part in changing the world in the Global Youth Service Day.

We are conducting fundraising activities to help the victims from the most recent earthquakes in Qinghai, China and Haiti, and the 2008 earthquake victims in Sichuan, China who are still recovering.

We have designed and ordered bracelets/wristbands and propose to organize presentations, wristband sale booths, and/or other activities at different locations and dates throughout the month (please see the confirmed location and dates below).

Each wristband says We Care Act and also the word Love in both Chinese and French (Haitians speak French as well)

Each wristband cost $0.53 and are already paid for by us. Our team leaders can sell for prices varying from $1.00-2.00 each to raise funds for We Care Act. For our team leaders, please email (wca@wecareact.org) to let us know how many you would like us to send to you.

We invite youth to join our organization to become a team leader. To join, please go to our website (www.wecareact.org) or send an email (wca@wecareact.org).

And remember: we can change the world!

The Chandler Preparatory Academy Global Youth Service Day committee is organizing a number of events to help Haiti after the disaster that occurred recently. The first wave of relief is complete, but the economy of Haiti is still really week, infrastructure damaged, etc. One of the main problems is the lack of medical supplies, which causes many deaths and damages of the civilians. Because of that reason we have decided to fund raise money, buy medical supplies ( the list was submitted by Red Cross) and ship them to Haiti, to make sure, that each citizen of that small and weak country will get necessary help. We ask you to donate medical supplies, such as bandages, paper towels (the items from the first medical care list), bake goods which will be sold on bake sale. Please participate, we will really appreciate your help!!!

iCare is the mutil-faceted GYSD service project led by over 230 youth and young adults in the Nortg Central Texas area. iCare will help people in the community through several diffent types of service-leraning projects.

- Fix my Clunker; youth alongside certified mechanics will conduct minor repairs and oil changes for people who otherwise would not be able to get an oil change. The minor car repair are completed when the car owner purchases the parts and we handle the labor.

- Hands across Lancaster; is a service project that will extend a helping hand to the 7 area nursing homes where youth can participate and volunteer to read, sit, or just provide a helping hand to senior citizens in those nursing homes.

- Heartbeat for Health; through a network with the American Heart Association
Obesity prevention services young people will distribute healthy eating infomration to impact and change the eating habit of the at-risk youth in the community. This project will effect over 14,000 children and youth in the community.

- Feed My Sheep; is a hunger-buster coalition where children, youth, and families can get food basket from products and donations collected over the past few months for GYSD.

Concordia students will be working with the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity to assist with a build in Portland.

As everyone knows, Haiti recently experienced a devestating earthquake. So the Hamilton City Schools' Honors Academy decided to team up with Matthew 25 ministries for the Clean Jeans for Haiti service learning project. Garfield Middle, Wilson Middle, and Hamilton Freshman School's gifted students are collecting clean jeans taht Matthew 25 ministries will deliver to Haiti. The gifted students wanted to help Haiti and chose to donate jeans because of denim's many uses. This campaign started April 16th and runs until May 14th. Bins to collect jeans of all sizes will be placed at each of the schools.
Want to help or donate?
Contact Karen Qualls- Gifted Coordinator at (513) 887-5033

In Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, State Farm sponsored a Semester of Service which kicked off on MLK Day. Since that day, 24 groups of junior high and high school students (over 100) have been meeting weekly with State Farm mentors (over 100) to identify, create, and implement service-learning projects. These projects will be highlighted at a Global Youth Service Day showcase on Friday, April 23 at Illinois State University (a lead agency).

More information about the showcase can be found at www.youthservicemcleancounty.org.

These community service projects are student lead and student ran. Each of my six classes chose a project from a reccommended list. Projects chosen this year are care packages for elderly center, books for a daycare, Haiti Relief, litter pick up, soda tabs for Ronald McDonald House, and clothing drive. Each students grade is 75% action and 25% reflection. I always use GYSD to connect my students with other students around the world.

Florida always has to worry about hurricanes and many families have a plan. People spend time stocking up on supplies, but what about pets? To help students better understand ways in which they can keep their pets safe in disaster/emergency situations, training on basic animal first aid and procedures will be reviewed at a local middle school--Sugg Middle School.

Volunteers will develop a plan for their pets and will practice simple techniques for taking care of pets.

We will be going over what kinds of clothing protects people from the weather,why do people in the desert wear loose robes,traditional clothes.

Youth representatives from various school districts in Lawrence County will meet one time per week throughout the semester to help prepare for Global Youth Service Day. They will identify needs that exist in their community, help do outreach to get others involved, and they will plan and implement a project of their own. The Youth Ambassadors will be guided by LCCAP staff and Generation Mentors. These students are leaders among their peers and are exceptionally involved with improving their community.

13th Annual Festival of Cycles. 4/24, 12 pm – 4 pm. A BIG bicycle
extravaganza with events for everyone. Build a bike, donate a bike, tune
up your bike, learn maintenance skills, get bike parts, create bicycle
sculptures, make a bicycle parking rack, see a range of human powered
vehicles, and participate in the kids corner with bike painting, bike
crafts, an obstacle course, and free helmets. Mechanical support from
Willard School Chain Links. Bike mechanics come down with your tools. Free
Cycles Missoula. Bonner Park. Bob Giordano. 406-880-6834.

This year for Global Youth Service Day we will help raise money for the victims in Haiti by having a bake sale around the courthouse square during.

Westminster College will be hosting a 'Teach-in/Peace Studeies Coffee House' to discuss historical and current issues facing the nation of Haiti. This educational awareness opporutnity is open to the public. Donations will be accepted for Haiti relief efforts.

Westminster College's 'Titan Traverse' program will be hosting a rock wall climb-a-thon to benefit their outdoor leadership program and support 'Hands for Haiti' (Wesminster's overarching initiative to aid if Haiti's disaster relief).

Roll Hill classrooms are collecting money for Haiti earthquake relief. Roll Hill CincyAfterSchool youth council is organizing a talend show for family and friends that will include a presentation on Haiti and a request for additional donations.

Chinatown Community Development Center Youth for SROs (YSROs) Leadership Project will host two Fire Prevention and Earthquake Preparedness workshops for over 60 families living in SF's Chinatown's Single Room Occupancy (SRO) residential hotels and 300 seniors who are members of Community Tenants Association (CTA). Besides education awareness, the youths have prepared and bought Personal Disaster Kits for each family and senior participants.

The City of Hampton in cooperation with The Volunteer Center of the Virginia Peninsula will be providing CERT Training for Teens ages 16 - 25. Volunteers are invited to attend an informational meeting to discuss the upcoming training.

Using art as a tool for activism to address community equity issues. This project will have four rotations: a mural about civic engagement and Census 2010; Census 2010 doorknocking; a political stencil project and art, cards and donations for Haiti youth. This project is geared toward high school youth and is a GYSD/Peace Jam partnership

Celebrate Service Learning is an awards ceremony and fundraiser to benefit the many organizations that work for the same causes that our classes have been learning about. Children will be selling crafts, food and drinks, and hosting carnival games to raise money for their causes.