Direct Effects Projects
Donate some of your time to support programs that help children.
Support a grassroots local NGO on a specific project – You can find a CARE project in your area concerning child health to assist with. Encourage local schools, teachers, libraries and churches to utilize the Heifer International’s reading fundraiser campaign. There may be NGOs in your area that you can help support. For example: Minnesota Health Volunteers in Minneapolis, World Neighbors in Oklahoma City, World Vision in Pittsburg, Save the Children in Norwalk, CARE in Atlanta, or PlanetAide.
Convince corporations to donate their products – For example, syringes and mosquito nets. There are many corporations already involved. By making companies in your community aware of opportunities to help, you may be able to help a great organization like World Vision.
Work with area elementary school students to write letters as pen pals – Use the opportunity to educate their parents through newsletters/information sessions.
Provide School Supplies for a School - Collect brand-new or gently-used school supplies at the end of the year to send to children in need of pencils and notebooks. Contact Diane for schools/locations for which to provide supplies.
Support “Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF” in Your Community - Each Halloween, UNICEF asks elementary and middle schools nationwide to distribute UNICEF donation boxes so that students can ask for small donations as they trick-or-treat. Your chapter of SCCS can help UNICEF in this important project by ensuring schools around your campus are registered for the Trick-or-Treat program. You can also help teachers implement the educational curriculum designed by UNICEF. You will be educating the next generation about issues affecting children. Interested? Click here for more info.
Volunteer at local clinics - Make sure newly immigrated children (refugees) learn English & receive vaccinations.
Provide Transportation Assistance - Donate a car, boat or RV for transit vehicles.
Engage young U.S. kids in foreign issues and peoples – Take a look at Kids CARE, bring in Peace Corps volunteers to speak, have classes color quilt squares and mail the quilts overseas, or mentor a child.
