Today I am begining my search for 100 community service projects that are effective and easy for a kid to do. I will list one project in each post. These projects include fundraising, volunteer work, raising awareness of important issues, and anything else my friends and I can find. My project for today is a project that I began recently which I call Recycle for the Dogs. In this project, my friends and I have been collecting soda bottles to return to the stores for the 5 cent refund. We then pool all of the money in one big jar and watch as the coins add up. All of the money that we recieve from the bottles will be donated to the ASPCA and Humane Society, organizations that help prevent animal cruelty and run animal shelters.
The project started out slowly, but my friends and I soon discovered that it was useful to collect not only our own bottles, but the bottles in our buildings' recycling bins. After that we got bottles much more quickly. Now three weeks have gone by and we have collected about 15 dollars in bottles alone, plus we collected even more from doing chores and collecting spare change.
This project has been pretty fun and has worked much more efficiently than my friends and I ever thought it would. In terms of how easy it was, collecting at home is very simple, but it gets harder when it comes to collecting the bottles from our whole buildings and returning the bottles to the stores. My building is pretty tall, so collecting from all of the floors was not easy. Returning bottles was the other more challenging part because most stores only take back bottles that they carry. So far though, it has not been too hard and my friends have had fun doing it.
Grading: The grading will be in three categories, how effective, fun, and easy the projects are. The grades are from 1 to 10. A 1 is the least effective, fun, or easy, and a 10 is the most. The effectiveness of a fundraiser will be measured in how much money is made with how many people and how quickly. The fun section is how much we enjoyed the project, and the easiness is how easily a kid can help out.
Effectiveness: 7
Easiness (a larger number is easier): 8
Fun: 8
My friends and I are on a mission to find 100 ways for kids to make a difference. My friends and I will be testing out each project that we discover. We will choose projects that can easily by done by kids and are not completely boring. We will rate each project from 1 to 10 in how fun they are, how much they help out, and how time consuming they are to do.
Sparky shows off his tennis ball
Recycle for the Dogs
Sparky with his bottle collection
Wow! Ceci, you are amazing! I really want to help with one of your next projects!
ReplyDeleteThere's this organization called Kids for a Better Future that might be interesting. Here's more about it: Akash Mehta started Kids For a Better Future when he was only 9 years old. Each year he has found a way to support children in great need. In 2007, KBF raised $7,000 to support two girls' schools in Herat, Afghanistan. In 2008, KFB supported an organization called Ajedi-Ka that works for children's rights in the Congo. This year KBF is supporting the Sambavna clinic in Bhopal, India, the site of the worst industrial distaster the world has ever known. He hopes to meet other civic-minded, service-oriented children that are interested in making a difference in the world!
ReplyDeletehi cc, i love your project and your blog page. judy sugarman is a friend of mine from way back when and pointed me to your great work via facebook. i am sending you the link to a project of one of my hawaii friends, gaye chan. the anarchist HI-5 project installs bins around town for people to donate - or take recyclable containers. as you know, a lot of people actually live from those nickels.
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