If you're one of the many students looking for how to get some community service hours over the break, check out these six opportunities:
*Remember to pick up your community service form BEFORE you leave for break! You can get a form from Ms. Hutchinson in the Main Office.
1. Food and Friends is in Fort Totten and has holiday volunteer
opportunities: http://www.foodandfriends.org/site/pp.asp?c=ckLSI8NNIdJ2G&b=7968713
2. Neighborhood Farm Initiative is a farm right near the Ft. Totten metro station, and
students can email Kristen Georger to see if they need any help over the break:
3. You can also email wangarigardens@gmail.com and ask
Josh Singer or Sarah McLaughlin if they have any volunteer opportunities at
Wangari Gardens, a community garden in NE DC, near the Washington Hospital
Center.
4. We Are Family DC has the
following volunteer opportunities over Winter Break. To sign up, go to: www.wearefamilydc.org/calendar and click on the
“Volunteer” button next to the date you want to volunteer.
Holiday Gift
Wrapping Party
Tuesday,
December 18 – 5pm-8pm
See Volunteer
Spot sign up for location details
North Capitol
Grocery Delivery
Saturday,
December 22 – 10am-1pm
Meet at the
Metro Community Church, 474 Ridge Street NW
2.5 blocks
from the Convention Center metro, near 5th & M Sts NW
Holiday Gift
Wrapping Party
Tuesday,
December 23 – 3pm-6pm
See Volunteer
Spot sign up for location details
Holiday Gift
Delivery
Tuesday, December
25, 10 am – 1 pm
Meet at the
Metro Community Church, 474 Ridge Street NW,
2.5 blocks from the Convention
Center metro, near 5th & M Sts NW
5. Books to Prisons: Information is Hope!
Location: Foundry Methodist Church
Address: 1500 16th ST NW, Washington, DC 20036
Date:
Wed, January 2nd 5:30 PM to
7:30 PM
Description:
Come spend an evening reading letters from prisoners and answering their book
requests, some of which are very interesting! We will select books according to
these requests from prisoners around the country and package them for sending.
Other
Info: Please bring any paper grocery bags that you have at home and don't need.
They use them to pack the books and have a tough time getting enough. The books
we most need right now are African American books (about or by), Westerns,
Spanish learning books, Native Americans, dictionaries, GED, math, basic
literacy, drawing, and science paperbacks - donations are welcome!
Since
1999, a concerned all-volunteer group of individuals has been responding to
requests from prisoners around the country for books. They also develop and
support local prison libraries. Unlike many programs, they do not limit
requests to a particular geographic area or, for example, to women. Thus they
receive a tremendous amount of requests from prisoners around the country and
are truly swamped. In the past twelve months, they have sent out close to 4,000
packages containing over 10,000 books. These packages have gone to prisoners in
150 different prisons in all 50 states. The U.S. has one of the highest
incarceration levels in the world (1 in 37 adults), but many prisoners have
little access to books or educational material. Many face substantial barriers
and are cut off from family and friends on the outside. While some prisons have
libraries, many do not. Of those that do, access and selection can be extremely
limited. Often, prisoners are not allowed to receive books from friends or
family.
Transit:
Located 2.5 blocks east of Dupont Circle. To get there via metro, one can
either take the red line to Dupont Circle, leave via the south entrance, walk
partially around the circle to P St. and go east 2.5 blocks. To get there via
the blue/orange line, one can go to McPherson Square, leave via the White House
exit, walk one block west on I St. Once you get to 16th St., wait for buses
heading north (come about every 5 minutes or so, before 7:30). When the bus
goes through the tunnel, pull the "stop requested" wire and get off
at the next stop which is the intersection of P St and 16th St.
Please
Note: Once you get to the church (door on 16th St.) ring the doorbell to be let
in, then go downstairs to the basement. Turn left, go to end of hall, then turn
right, and we are the last door on the right after the bathrooms (B2). There is
not a parking lot, but it is generally not too difficult to find street parking
if you look around a bit.
1500 16th ST NW, Washington, DC 20036
Event to be held at the following time, date, and location:
Dec 7 through 24
Mon-Sat: 12:00-9:00 p.m.
Sundays: 10:00 am-6;00 p.m.
Dec 24th: 8:00 am-6:00
p.m. To sign up, email:
Fashion Center At Pentagon City
100 South Haynes Street
Arlington, VA
We hope you can make it!
