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Community
Service Projects
Community Service is in integral part of
being a Girl Scout. Please support our girls in their efforts to help
the community by checking the links below and contributing to their
projects. Girl Scouts should check links below for volunteer
opportunities in the community.
Please email us at
dtp@sahuarogsc.org
if you would like to post your Girl Scout community service project or
if your nonprofit group would like the request the service of Girl Scout
volunteers.
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Check out the
Spotlight on Girl Scouts
page to see how Girl Scouts contribute to our community. |
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Book Drive:
Please bring any books to the Resource Center
As part of the Martin
Luther King Jr. Day celebrations, Sahuaro Girl Scout Council
is partnering with the Youth Now Collaboration, Americorps,
and the Southern Arizona Volunteer Center to host a Book
Drive! The Book Drive will begin November 24th
and culminate on January 16, 2009 in time to deliver books
to needy families on January 19, 2009.
The Book
Drive will help fight illiteracy as part of the three evils:
Poverty, War and Racism. Illiteracy leads to poverty and we
hope to fight it by donating as many books as possible to
families that can not afford to buy their own. Age and
subject appropriate books will also be donated to the new
Bookmans Low Library and a new library at the Food Bank’s
Marana Youth Farm.
There will
be boxes located in the Sahuaro Girl Scout Resource Center
from now until January 16, 2009. Please bring any books
collected by your troops to the Resource Center and drop
them in one of the available boxes. Donated books do not
have to be children’s books! We can trade any books we
collect for age and subject appropriate books at Bookmans
before we deliver them to families.
If you have
any questions please contact Kristi Pallack at 520-419-4646. |
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The Tucson
Wildlife Center Needs Your Help
Is your troop
interested in fulfilling the community service component of
the following?
The Tucson
Wildlife Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to
rehabilitating wild animals and birds found injured in the
Tucson area. We would be delighted if you could spare any
of the following items:
Computer
paper, paper towels, hand soap, office supplies, medical
supplies, moving blankets, blankets, towels, animal care
items, laundry detergent, garbage bags, Ziploc bags, storage
containers, shelving, regular bleach, building supplies,
heating pads, heat lamps, shade cloth, perches, latex and
non-latex gloves, feeding bowls, puppy pads, cleaning
supplies, tools, dry erase boards, and heaters, etc.
For more
information on their wish list go to:
http://www.tucsonwildlife.com.wish_list.htm |
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Girls Scouts needed to assist local
refugees
Iskash*taa Refugee Harvesting Network is a group of
volunteers working with African refugees on a project to
identify and map food resources growing in
Tucson. We are making a computer-generated map and database
of fruit trees and garden locations in neighborhoods.
Volunteers needed
to assist with mapping project and to harvest fruit. Badge
earning opportunities available! Contact Barbara at
520-440-0100 or
harvest@fruitmappers.org
http://www.fruitmappers.org
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The
Community Food Bank has learning and service opportunities
for our Girl Scouts. The Food Bank has a
five-acre vegetable farm located in Marana which is open to
the public for tours, growing classes and community farming.
What a great opportunity for our Girl Scouts to tour the
farm and/or help the Community Food Bank during a Girl Scout
Service Day. Please call Varga Garland, Director of the
Community Food Bank at (520) 622-0525 for more information. |
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OPERATION RED SHIRT
COMMUNITY EVENT took place on
Friday, August 3, 2007 at Salpointe High School.
Participants
formed a heart in support of girls whose
parents are deployed overseas.
Abby
& Sofia display the flag and their red shirts proudly!
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Interfaith Community Services would like Juniors - Senior
Girl Scouts to create handmade birthday cards to
send to their clients. The birthday cards need to be
legible, upbeat and contain no religious content. ICS would
like to provide their own cardstock for the project. Troop
leaders can contact Mina Jeffery, the volunteer coordinator,
directly at
mjeffery@icstucson.org or 297-6049. |
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Heartland Hospice is seeking 16-18 year old youth to assist
with life-sharing activities with their clients.
30 hours of training are required for this service
opportunity. Interested girls can contact Nancy Curran at
325-2790. |
Calling all Mentors,
Ages 16+!
Date: ongoing
Project ACHIEVE Mentoring is a collaborative program with Amphi Public
Schools and the Volunteer Center of Southern Arizona that matches at-risk
children with mentors. Mentors meet with the students once a week for about
1½ - 2 hours after school at the child’s school. Mentors and mentees can use
this one-on-one time to talk, work on homework and play games. Currently, we
are in need of mentors at La Cima Middle School, Amphi Middle School, Prince
Elementary, Nash Elementary, Keeling Elementary, Walker Elementary, Rio
Vista Elementary and Holaway Elementary. For more information, contact the
Volunteer Center of Southern Arizona at 881-3300 ext 109, or e-mail
lwalker@volunteersoaz.org. |
Adopt a Friend!
Girl Scout Volunteers Needed
Date: ongoing
The Fountains at La Cholla Retirement Community (next to
Northwest Hospital) is looking for volunteers to share
hobbies, read, paint, etc. or just chat with wonderful
people. YOU pick the activity, and YOU pick the time most
convenient for you.
Fore more information, please call Mary Weaver or Gloria
Gerwin at 797-2002. |
Volunteer with Tucson
Clean & Beautiful
Date: ongoing
The Tucson Clean & Beautiful Adopt-a-Park program was
established in 1985 as a program to combat the growing
problem of litter in parks and other public areas. Through
this program, McCormick Park and another 100 park sites
throughout the Tucson metro area are available now for
adoption by community organizations including Girl Scout
troops. Troops
may volunteer to adopt their neighborhood park by picking up
litter and reporting any maintenance needs such as vandalism
to help keep the park
a clean and safe place to visit. Volunteer groups can plan a
one-time litter cleanup project, or if they agree to clean
up a public area as an ongoing project, they can receive
official Adopt-a-Park recognition
including a sign at the adopted site and an Adopt-a-Park
ceremony. Troops can also incorporate this program into
their Earth, Ecology, or Environment merit badges, and many
other projects and badge awards are appropriate to projects
that can be done at community parks.
If your Girl Scout troop would be interested in the
Adopt-a-Park program, please call B.J. Cordova at Tucson
Clean & Beautiful (520-791-3109) or visit
http://www.tucsonaz.gov/tcb/tcbaap.htm for more
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Lighten Someone's Heart
Date: ongoing
Our
Place Assisted Living Homes is seeking Girl Scout volunteers to spend an
hour or two with our residents visiting, playing games, making a
presentation, etc. It would be wonderful if this could be done once a
month. If interested, please contact Cecilia Clemente, Manager of Our
Place Assisted Living Homes at 808-2404.
Homes are located at
5105 E. Burns (near Broadway and Rosemont)
and 5601 10th Street (near Broadway and Craycroft) in Tucson. |
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