The student council at Jefferson Community School has been working on a service learning project to benefit Haiti. They have been learning about Haitian culture and demographics through internet research, the news, and an expert speaker. They have been collecting money in their homerooms.

On April 20, 2010 (Houston Area),Tuesday, our youth will report to the Houston Parole Office from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. We will be putting together packets of posters and literature to be delivered to schools & girl scouts. There are 100 packets that need to be made in educating and making the community aware of Global Youth Service Day. Our youth will enter in a essay contest "Why take it to the streets to feed the homeless, clean a park, and assist the community". The winner of the contest will win a $25.00 gift card! Our Youth will have music and bring sack lunch and drinks during lunch time. Following the announcement of the essay winner our youth will have refreshments and will get Global Day T-Shirts.

On April 23, 2010,(Houston Area, Friday) our youth will report to the Houston TYC Parole Office at 8:00 am. We will be traveling to downtown parks and streets to feed the homeless with food provided by Wendy’s. We will deliver 100 lunches. LUNCH / Pizza Party will be following feeding the homeless in Houston Downtown park area.

In our Galveston / Alvin location areas on April 20,2010 (Tuesday) we will be collecting and delivering soda can tabs to the McDonald House to assist burn victims. Youth will also participate in the essay contest "Why take it to the streets to feed the homeless, clean a park, and assist the community" The winner will get a prize ($25.00 gift card) Refreshments will be served and participants will get Global Day T-Shirts.

On April 23, 2010 in our Galveston / Alvin location areas,Friday,our youth will assist the YMCA with completing packets for a festival at Moody Gardens. They will have a pizza party after assisting the YMCA with the packets.

For GYSD America Reads-MS AmeriCorps members are doing a campus clean up at Christian Mission Learning Center. Members will also collect materials to recycle and canned goods of green foods (green beans, lima beans, peas, etc) to donate to the local Stewpot. Members will also construct a Reading Nook assembled out of recycled and refurbished materials and fill it up with donated books.

Students will present several months of data-informed public speeches that have convinced New Orleans students to value their educations and stay in school. Younger students have been inspired by the example Hope Academy 8th graders have led and we are excited to present our results and influence important individuals like school leaders and principals!

Students, parents, teachers, staff, and community members will meet at the Community Garden from 8:00 am - 3:00 pm. Come for an hour, or two, or for the day. We will Get It Done!

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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.

With the current economic crisis many people are losing their jobs and homes. There are large efforts to help the homeless in various places around the world, but we do not want to forget about those who are without homes right here in our own community. Helpfulness Against Homelessness is a project focused on addressing this unmet need.

Volunteers are asked to donate items such as mosquito repellent, socks, towels, baby formula, nonperishable food, toiletries, and more. These items will be distributed amongst those who visit and utilize the One Stop Center's resources. The One Stop Center is part of the Community Coalition on Homelessness which enables the homeless to eat, shower, receive mail, apply for jobs, etc.

Donations will be collected at the Volunteer Center between 3:00 and 5:00P.M.

As part of Global Youth Service Day, Appropriate Placement Options, Inc. is partnering with Mooresville Christian Mission, along with community youth and adult volunteers, to provide free groceries on Saturday, April 24th at the Mooresville Christian Mission located at 266 N. Broad Street, Mooresville, NC 28117. Vouchers are available by contacting 704-664-2357 or 704-873-2177. All of our projects are being supported by our many community partners, including, but not limited to, Statesville Housing Authority, BJ's, United Way, Kohls, Iredell Statesville Schools, Christian Outreach, Boys & Girls Club of Piedmont, Powercross, Statesville Record & Landmark, Western Avenue Baptist Church, Landmark Church of God, Mi-Familia, Statesville Iredell Gang Initiative, and many more community partners.

The Jefferson School's Eagles Coffee Crew is a student-run coffee business that serves coffee to staff three days a week. Eagles Coffee Crew is currently in its third year of business and has 3 eighth grade staff members. We sell coffee and donate a portion of the profits to a local charity. In the past, we've donated to Play Pumps International, an organization in Africa that builds playgrounds. As the children play on the playgrounds, the movement from their bodies pumps fresh water to the surface, providing a convenient, clean water source to the community. We decide at the end of the year to whom we wish to donate our money. We purchase true trade coffee beans from City Kid Java, a local organization that donates its profits to support youth programming in Minneapolis. We serve our coffee and drinks in ceramic mugs instead of paper/plastic cups in order to reduce our carbon footprint.

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.

The Lawrence County Community Action Partnership is partnering with a local high school to connect students with housing needs that exist in this community. Students will be painting, cleaning, and doing small repairs for Patches Place and the Sankey Youth Center (2 local nonprofit organizations).

105 K-6 youth will design, plant, cultivate and harvest a community vegetable garden during the hours of the after-school program in which they are enrolled. 64% of these youth come from low- or very low-income households. In partnership with local master gardeners and the county extension office, youth will educate their peers on the importance of local food production and it's impact on carbon reduction. Program participants will also increase their knowledge of healthy food choices and how to incorporate home- or locally-grown produce into their day-to-day eating plans. This holistic project, guided and designed by young people, aims to address issues of environmental importance and overall physical health.

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.

Growing for the Greater Good will grow a large vegetable garden where the whole harvest will be donated to soup kitchens to help feed people in need. Millions of people in the United States do not have enough to eat on a daily basis. Growing for the Greater Good will provide not just food but healthy food to soup kitchens to help feed families. This project will teach children not only how to care for our earth in order for it to provide food through a sustainable garden but it will also teach the students to give back to people in need. On Friday, April 23rd students from Pinewood Preparatory School will help plant this garden.

In this sustainable garden, plants will be grown without depleting natural resources or contributing to pollution. This project will also use compost from the schools cafeteria and land around the school. Rather than tossing compostable waste such as coffee grinds and leaves into a landfill they will be composted and returned back to the earth in the garden. All vegetables that are grown in the garden will be donated to local soup kitchens which will cut down on pollution by not having the soup kitchens have to truck in vegetables from other states.

South Carolina has the second highest percentage of hungry people in the the United States. Even though fruits and vegetables are considered the foundation of a healthy diet, the hungry and needy almost never eat fresh produce. That's because they are provided with mostly canned and packaged food from emergency food programs. Growing for the greater good will grow vegetables and deliver the harvest to the soup kitchens the day they are picked when they have the highest nutritional value. The project will improving the nutrition of hungry citizens and in turn hopefully improve their health.

The event targets empowering rural, underprivileged women who will in turn be strengthening their family economy via starting small industries.During the event a group of 30 women aged between 16 and 45 will be encouraged to start a small industry that suits their potential.

First the women will be convinced the importance of their involvement in upholding their family economy. Then they will be guided to identify their strengths, weaknesses and opportunities and threats to start an industry. Then they will be taught to prioritize among their options. At the end of the day each participent will come up with a suitable industry to carry on with (which will be supported in the seccond phase of the programme).

The event is scheduled to be held on April 20,2010 at the Kavudupelella Temple, Kavudupelella, Matale, Sri Lanka from 8.30 am to 4.30 pm.

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Hi! My name's Byryltai, I'm from Kyrgyzstan.I take part in Tech Age Girl project under Global Connections and Exchange Program.

There is an orphan school "Ymut" in our town Kant. "Ymut" is translated from Kyrgyz like "Hope". There are 8 homeless children. We want to help these children to feel themselves happy and needed. We want to present them ballons with our wishes and they will take a balloon and read their future on it.I and my classmates plan to collect toys, clothes, stationaries, candies and bring them to the children.We want to organize a picnic with games, dances and songs.

We want to give them a piece of our love and make them smiling!

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Elementary school student, teacher and parents from Cendekia Leadership School will collect blanket and money for disaster survival in Jawa Barat startig from 5 until 22 April 2010. Student volunteer also ask Bandung International School to participate in the event. On 25 April 2010, student and teacher of Cendekia Leadership School will go to natural disaster area in the surrounding area and donate the blanket and money to them.

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Kenmore Middle School, Arlington, Virginia partners with the Ritz-Carlton Hotels, America's Promise Alliance and the Carpenter Shelter. Students in the 8th grade Family and Consumer Science -Life Management classes develop an understanding of community service while sewing 125 haversack bags for the "ladies and gentlemen" being housed at the Alexandria Carpenter Shelter.

Community Outreach Inc. is a multi-faceted human service organization that provides services for men, women, and children who are homeless and very low income in the mid-Willamette Valley by providing housing, crisis intervention, medical and treatment services. Volunteers will tour the facility and perform services such as cleaning which will aid Community Outreach in saving money in order to better serve their clients.
Community Outreach Inc. calculates that every hour a single volunteer donates their time is worth $17.50 that can then be used directly towards the needs of their clients. This means that the 30 PeaceJam Youth, over the course of two hours, will allow $1050 to be allocated directly to those being served by Community Outreach Inc.

http://communityoutreachinc.org/
http://oregonstate.edu/peacejam/
http://peacejam.org/

Talleres y Conferencia: Sobre Embarazo precoz, vih-sida, sobre derechos de los pueblos indígenas, adapatacion y mitigación del cambio climático, Convenio de Diversidad Biológico, Conocimiento Tradicional y
Educación Bilingüe Intercultural.

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THIS EVENT IS NOT OPEN TO ADDITIONAL VOLUNTEERS.
My students will work at a site renovating apartments for low income families with Builders of Hope. Our team is made up of students with disabilities who attend an alternative school. They have a strong desire to give back to the community by removing blight and providing safe homes for underserved children and families.

The organizational mission of Sister Carmen Community Center (SCCC) is to provide assistance without discrimination to the residents of East Boulder County who are in need. Sister Carmen Community Center is East Boulder County’s only comprehensive emergency assistance center and has been serving the community for over 30 years. On Global Youth Service Day 2010, Sister Carmen will coordinate a group of volunteers to help sort through thrift store items, bag food bank items and clean the store.

Students will participate in various service activities each day for a different cause to celebrate National Volunteer Week.
Events include:
Monday, April 19: Bring in Care Package item or monetary donation to Support Our Troops being deployed. Proceeds will be donated to Blue Star Mothers. All students participating will wear red, white, and blue clothing to school.
Tuesday, April 20: Bring in new or gently used school uniforms and/or belts for the school's (DuLarge Elementary School)community closet. All students participating may dress down.
Wednesday, April 21: Bring in aluminum cans and/or can tabs. These items will be brought to Southern Scrap for recycling. The proceeds will be donated to Ronald McDonald Charities. All students participating will receive a Certificate of Thanks and Appreciation.
Thursday, April 22: Bring in new and/or gently used school supplies. These items will be donated to our Bookbag Santa who will bring them to needy children in Belize. This activity helps keep unused items from going to a landfill! All students participating will receive an extra 5 minutes of recess. *Items for this activity will be accepted throughout the remainder of the school year.
Friday, April 23: We do not have school but will continue to celebrate Global Youth Service Day and Americas Wetland's Week. All student's will be given a postcard on Thursday to mail to a family member or friend over the weekend. The postcard provides information about how Louisiana is helping to fight coastal erosion and continue to save our wetlands.

Hartford Action Plan along with Artist Collective will be hosting a Fund Drive to collect clothing and supplies for St. Agnes Home in West hartford. St. Agnes Home is a home for pregnant teen girls who have nowhere to go. http://www.stagneshome.org/help/index.shtml

Please come by and donate needed supplies anytime this week 4/19 to 4/24 at the Artist Collective anytime this week to drop off supplies at 1200 Albany Ave. Hartford, CT (the corner of Albany Ave & Woodland St.)
http://artistscollective.org/

Contact Regina Roundtree of Hartford Action Plan at 860-805-4799 cell / regina@teenpregnancyhartford.org

A FOOD & MONEY DONATION FOR INTERFAITH/POOR PEOPLE Project is organized to help to support INTERFAITH and Poor People with food and money as a Global Youth Service Day Project. This project is organized by the exchange student from Azerbaijan together with the Thomas Jefferson High School INTERACT Club and with the support of Denver Rotary Club and it is going to take place on Friday, April 23, from 3-5 pm, in the Safeway store on 4950 East Hampden Ave. Denver CO 80222. We are going to summon donations right in the store from the people who would like to donate. Right now I have 4 volunteers, but the people who have time to help me with this important project are welcome to participate.
Please call 720 3243943 for any questions.

As a part of our on-going community garden program students, families and community members are invited to come "get dirty" in the Dillard Academy garden. We will break the land and build raised beds of produce and flowers for our K-6 population and community volunteers to tend. The harvest will be used to supply our weekly food pantry distribution, to make healthy afterschool snacks, for donation baskets for local rest homes, and to sell at the Farmer's Market (proceeds supporting the afterschool program).

We will be selling Italian ice to help raise money for students wanting to attend summer enrichment camps. Fayetteville State University student volunteers and the FSU Center for Community Justice and Service Learning will be helping Learn to play Children Center raise funds to send their student to summer enrichment camps this year.

Communities without the basic needs, continue to be hungry and not thriving. Learn how youth can make a difference.
1. Food drive, packaging and Human Food Chain deliver block to block food to local Southside Food shelf.

1. Assembling care packages for women in the Harriet Tubman Battered Women’s shelter.
2. Participate in local spoken word writing workshop on the pride, strength and courage of women in challenging and violent relationships—WRITE a spoken word piece for the care packages to the women in shelter.

Students in the Culinary Arts and Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Administration courses at the St. Charles Parish Satellite Center will conlcude a lesson on institutional food service by feeding 250 homeless men and women at the Ozanam Inn homeless shelter in New Orleans, Louisiana.