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Volunteer Activities
For Children

SHARON ACHATZ

Special to The Jewish News

W

ith issues such as
pollution, animal
rights, the home-
less, the abused and the en-
vironment being given promi-
nent discussion at the dinner
table and in the schoolhouse,
many kids today have become
concerned crusaders looking
to change the world for the
better.
For kids from 6 to 16, com-
munity service and volun-
teerism are growing trends —
whether organized in a
schoolroom, between a few
friends on the playground, at
a club meeting or by a scout-
ing or religious leader.
Here's a sampling of what
kids and young adults around
the United States have done
— and can do — to make a
difference:
• Collect toys for children
living in homeless shelters or
public parks.
• Collect clothing and
blankets for the homeless.
• Adopt a local beach, river
or empty lot and clean it up.
• Collect non-perishable
food for a local soup kitchen
or shelter.
• Visit elderly shut-ins at
nursing homes or do chores
for shut-ins at their own
homes in your neighborhood.
• Collect aluminum cans
and give the proceeds to
charity.
• Dress in a book-character
costume and read to children
in the hospital.
• Plant trees at local parks,
abuse centers or shelters.

• Make environmentally
friendly shampoos and
household cleaners from
recipes outlined in books such
as Projects for a Healthy
Planet by Shar Levine and
Allison Grafton (John Wiley
& Sons).
• Start an animal rights
club with ideas from books
such as Kids Can Save the
Animals by Ingrid Newkirk
(Warner Books) and A Kid's
Guide to How to Save the
Animals by Billy Goodman
(Avon Books).
• Start a neighborhood food
bank for the homeless or
elderly.
• Organize a school recy-
cling center. ❑

Childhood Ills

Among the problems facing
today's youth: increased
childhood poverty, violent
deaths among teens and a ris-
ing birth rate among unwed
teens.

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