Single Service Committee
Chair: Diana Tran
Time and Location: Tuesday 5-6, Barrow (Room TBA)
What we do!
As part of the Single Service Committee you will be brainstorming, planning, and executing events from scratch. The different events we come up with are usually geared towards our DSI (District Service Initiative). Our District Service Initiative is where everyone in the District (California, Nevada, and Hawaii) focus on one main goal (the service initiative). For this year our DSI is Project Give: Offering a Helping Hand. Most years we try to focus on children of different backgrounds but with this committee we focus on anything in which we could help the community.
DSI is Project Give: Offering a Helping Hand
Projects we have done:
Children's Halloween Festival: This is our annual event. For the past 6 years we have implemented this event in order to bring Halloween to the low-income families in the surrounding areas. In this completely free festival, we have booths, a haunted house, prizes, a skit, and entertainment which all gear towards educating the children while letting them have fun. For this year our event will take place on Saturday October 31st. So come out to the committee meetings, as we will plan everything from scratch for this program.
St. Andrew's Renovation (Summer 2009): This was the first Single Service event of the 09-10 Circle K year. We helped renovate an underprivileged private school in Oakland. This school did not have a play ground, so we decided to input a few things to the school to help make it more enjoyable for the children (students). We painted a U.S map, hopscotch squares, 4 squares, and even put in a basketball court.
Music and Arts festival (Spring 2009): This event was brainstormed and planned by last yearŐs Spring Committee. This event will provide children and their families an afternoon of fun and education workshops about various fine and performing arts, as well as a special play based on Disney's The Lion King. The play emphasizes good nutrition, which relates to the health and safety aspect of the District Service Initiative.
Rush for the Gold (Spring 2008): We went to a school in Oakland and taught the students about the California Gold Rush. There were 5 different stations including panning for gold, making friendship bracelets, geography/geology of the gold rush, immigration during the gold rush, tools of the gold rush. After the museum-like tour of the stations, there was railroad building competition. Then the kids were lead in a scavenger hunt. There was also a Muppet show at the beginning and the end of the project.
Around the World (Spring 2007): We are working with fellow student performance groups on campus to provide students at a local elementary school with an overall multicultural experience. The highlight of the event was a series of performances by UC Berkeley students. As a bonus, we gave them cultural foods. The kids had lots of fun, especially during the performances when they danced along. We asked them many cultural questions, and many of these reinforced what they know
ChildrenŐs Play (Spring 2006): Wow, what an amazing event. The children were really excited with the play. The parents are really impressed and the pastor even took me aside to say how wonderful the whole performance was. The children had many practice days where they prepared for the big performance. This event supported the Pediatric Cancer, Pediatric Trauma Prevention, and Higher Education.
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