This term, Team 5 are going to volunteer their services by taking part in a community project. Right now we are at the Get Thinking stage of the inquiry process, where we need to FIND the perfect project to do.
We are interested in hearing from our family and friends and wider community to find out what they think would be a good project for us to do for our community. Please comment any ideas you get below.
Mrs Trembath suggests: Car wash! My car is always dirty! to raise money for buying new PJs for Kids First Hospital
ReplyDeleteTamaki Estuary clean up
Grandparents Morning Tea
School Butterfly Garden spruceup
Pink Ribbon Breakfast
Ask Kids First if they need something like A Class Joke Book or art for their walls etc
I'm very excited to start helping other people!
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ReplyDeletevery nice! I'm definitely going to get my creative juices thinking!
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ReplyDeleteLauren suggests:
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lemonade stands,
donating
and making art to sell and getting money from the art to donate.
My mum suggest that we could read to younger kids at the local library, play card or board games with residents at a nursing home, help raise money for a charity with a bake sale or donate items to Starship Hospital that are listed on their “Gift in Kind Wish List”.
ReplyDeleteMy Mum and Dad think...
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A book sale
Walk across Eastern Beach and pick up rubbish
A big car wash
organising a beach clean up. The beach clean up will be hold by school. So it is walking distance.
ReplyDeleteA nice school kit will give kids a good future, because they have learnt how to when they where young. We could have a pack of paper, books, pens, pencils, glue sticks, clothes and shoes.
ReplyDeletegiving food and clothes to the people in need. Good luck I am keen to hear what your class agrees on.
ReplyDeleteplanting trees or flowers, pick up rubbish, make treats for an old people's home, improve your school grounds, develop a recycling program at school and collect food, clothing or toys for the needy.
ReplyDeleteClothes drive and donate to hospice or woman's refuge, clean up a local park or playground, collect and donate food to Auckland City Mission and make baked goods or treats for a local retirement home.
ReplyDeleteMy nana does lots of volunteer work in Whangamata and I wanted to know more about her work and so I emailed her and asked her why she does all of this volunteer work, and so now I can share to you what she does with this reply:
ReplyDeleteHi Joe, yes certainly I can tell you about my experiences about being a volunteer. My meals on wheels job entails doing this once a month, I go out to moana house retirement village where the meals are prepared, they pack the meals which are all packed into chilly bins, hot and cold. The happiness I see on the older folks receiving these meals is lovely, and sometimes the person delivering the meals is the only person that the older person sees all day, so they enjoy a wee chat.
The library is most enjoyable as I get to look at and read books that I probably would not see, while helping out and providing our town with a great service. Not everyone has or uses kindles to read by, the need for library books is always there.
I joined Lions as this association always does things for the local community, like projects around the town that benefit the town and its people. We fund raise to help young students from our community to enable them to be able to do projects of their own, without the Lions help they would not be able to do. The Lions club here in Whangamata have also provided a lot of the clubs in town ex. Surf lifesaving club, with the lifesaving equipment they need. Your poppa was also a Lion member
The money raised from the daffodils we pick and sell is all donated to the Lions Cancer lodge in Hamilton where patients go for treatment, your Poppa Ken was one of the patients there for 7 weeks during his treatment. So for me it is most rewarding to know that what I am doing is helping heaps of others in our community. This daffodil season that we have just done has raised $4.800. dollars so that will help immensely as they do not get any government funding.
So volunteering is about doing what you can to help others as much as you can.
Love Nana
I like all the ideas so far. Another idea is to maybe sell people a kit made with the ingredients (vinegar, baking soda etc), the containers and recipes for making cleaning products etc.. used in peoples houses. People could give them as presents for Christmas and it would help people use environmentally friendly cleaners in their homes.
ReplyDeleteI'm very excited to start helping other people!
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