Service-Learning VIPs: Marblehead Community Charter Public School

Read about the great service projects completed by the service-learning VIPs at Marblehead Community Charter Public School in Massachusetts:

Emily P.: "We raised money for Global Giving so they could buy more Embrace infant warmers to save underweight or premature babies in India. To donate, go to globalgiving.org."

Nicole L.: "Each term we are assigned a project to do in our community service learning class. Our project this term was to address an organization, and address a need. My partner and I worked with Be the Change. Be the Change is an organization created by students at Stanford University. They researched and designed an incubator to help the cause of premature infant death rate. They made a low cost incubator that could help save a life."

Abigail K.: "For a school project, my partner and I researched local hunger. We already knew that it had a large impact on our community, but we found it was even more than we thought. From there we decided to volunteer at a local soup kitchen called My Brother's Table. We also interviewed a longtime volunteer there. This project was very informational."

Chris: "This term I participated in a pedestrian courtesy project. We found credited organizations for this cause. We conducted a study of cars that stop at sidewalks. An astounding twelve percent of the cars stopped."

Claire Marie V.: "This year I participated in a lot of community service. I participated in the ARC organization’s Kids on the Block puppet shows. In these shows, kids use puppets to act out scenes involving people with disabilities. This educates the audience along with the performer on disability awareness. I recommend this for kids of all ages."

Sharon M.: "I am a eighth grade Student at the Marblehead Charter School and for a community service project I chose to do a project in the topic of disability awareness and am currently engaged in the Kids on the Block. It is a group where we practice and perform puppet shows."

Jack C.: "Our group chose to help HAWC (Healing Abuse Working for Change). We held a food drive. bake sale, and made t-shirts to sell at a school bazaar. We raised $45 at the bake sale, collected toiletries and food for their safe houses, and all the shirt sales went to HAWC."

Althea L.: "I set up a donation bin in the front of our school for donations for HAWC, helped organize a bake sale, and am volunteering there next Saturday, at the Walk for HAWC, and throughout the summer."