Spotlight On Volunteering
Issue date: 2/18/05 Section: News
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Help Inner-city kids
AmeriCorps members are involved in volunteer recruitment for the Youth Golf and Academic Program and currently has volunteer opportunities for student organizations and individuals. YGAP seeks to even the playing field between disadvantaged children and their more advantaged peers. They do this by providing inner city children with a supervised environment during after school hours when juvenile crime rates peak, supporting the academic and social development of our children through homework support, literacy activities, academic enrichment, and recreational programming and committing to provide these services free of charge to children from the time they are referred as kindergartners until they enter fifth grade.
For more information contact Kate Ramsaur at ygapcamden@hotmail.com or at 856-756-0222
Kids Around Town
Children need to learn their civic rights and responsibilities. This award-winning curriculum cultivates citizenship and problem-solving in kids through hands-on, inquiry-based projects to better their community. This event will take place Feb. 26 from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. For more information contact Gordon Todorovac at 610-594-7264 or at sawyer90@yahoo.com.
Project Welcome
Help immigrants with conversational English and other everyday activities. Volunteers can help students fill out confusing paperwork and answer general questions on life in America. No training or certification required. Event takes place Feb. 24 from 6-8 p.m. For more information contact Srini Ganesan at srinivasan_ganesan@vanguard.com.
National Collegiate Global Women's and Human Rights
Join student leaders in the women's rights, anti-slavery, anti-globalization, human rights, peace, and environmental movements April 9-11 for the Feminist Majority Foundation's National Collegiate Global Women's and Human Rights Conference. The conference will feature keynote speakers from national human and women's rights organizations as well as workshops on a variety of issues highlighting the interconnectedness of feminist and human rights issues. Sex trafficking, sweatshop labor, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, women as weapons of war and the exploitation of the environment are a few of the many topics that will be covered during the conference. This Conference is for all progressive students who are involved in any or all of these progressive issues. To register and for more information on travel and lodging, fundraising, and the Washington, DC area visit their Web site at http://www.feministcampus.org today.
Service Organization Summit and Community Service
The Service Organization Summit is the council of student organizations dedicated to fostering a student movement that thoughtfully addresses the challenges we face as a society through community service and social action at the University. SOS does this by promoting the community service activities of individual student organizations on campus, providing and coordinating opportunities for student organizations to collaborate on community service activities and by educating and raising awareness about global community issues by initiating campus wide programs and events. For more information on SOS visit http://www.drexelsos.org or e-mail sos@drexel.edu. The community service organizations that make up SOS include: Circle K, Habitat for Humanity, Greens' Ideas, Gamma Sigma Sigma, Amnesty International, Alpha Phi Omega and Tech Serv.
AmeriCorps members are involved in volunteer recruitment for the Youth Golf and Academic Program and currently has volunteer opportunities for student organizations and individuals. YGAP seeks to even the playing field between disadvantaged children and their more advantaged peers. They do this by providing inner city children with a supervised environment during after school hours when juvenile crime rates peak, supporting the academic and social development of our children through homework support, literacy activities, academic enrichment, and recreational programming and committing to provide these services free of charge to children from the time they are referred as kindergartners until they enter fifth grade.
For more information contact Kate Ramsaur at ygapcamden@hotmail.com or at 856-756-0222
Kids Around Town
Children need to learn their civic rights and responsibilities. This award-winning curriculum cultivates citizenship and problem-solving in kids through hands-on, inquiry-based projects to better their community. This event will take place Feb. 26 from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. For more information contact Gordon Todorovac at 610-594-7264 or at sawyer90@yahoo.com.
Project Welcome
Help immigrants with conversational English and other everyday activities. Volunteers can help students fill out confusing paperwork and answer general questions on life in America. No training or certification required. Event takes place Feb. 24 from 6-8 p.m. For more information contact Srini Ganesan at srinivasan_ganesan@vanguard.com.
National Collegiate Global Women's and Human Rights
Join student leaders in the women's rights, anti-slavery, anti-globalization, human rights, peace, and environmental movements April 9-11 for the Feminist Majority Foundation's National Collegiate Global Women's and Human Rights Conference. The conference will feature keynote speakers from national human and women's rights organizations as well as workshops on a variety of issues highlighting the interconnectedness of feminist and human rights issues. Sex trafficking, sweatshop labor, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, women as weapons of war and the exploitation of the environment are a few of the many topics that will be covered during the conference. This Conference is for all progressive students who are involved in any or all of these progressive issues. To register and for more information on travel and lodging, fundraising, and the Washington, DC area visit their Web site at http://www.feministcampus.org today.
Service Organization Summit and Community Service
The Service Organization Summit is the council of student organizations dedicated to fostering a student movement that thoughtfully addresses the challenges we face as a society through community service and social action at the University. SOS does this by promoting the community service activities of individual student organizations on campus, providing and coordinating opportunities for student organizations to collaborate on community service activities and by educating and raising awareness about global community issues by initiating campus wide programs and events. For more information on SOS visit http://www.drexelsos.org or e-mail sos@drexel.edu. The community service organizations that make up SOS include: Circle K, Habitat for Humanity, Greens' Ideas, Gamma Sigma Sigma, Amnesty International, Alpha Phi Omega and Tech Serv.
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