Young Volunteers at Capital Children’s Museum
A 12 year old volunteers at the Capital Children’s Museum in Washington DC describes the experience as fun and educational. Weekend volunteers demonstrate activities like using a computer and running a printing press while 30 youths aged 11 to 18 wear aprons and sign in alongside adults. They pool funds via bake sales for field trips, and last summer the group visited a nearby amusement park.
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Cheers for Volunteers You Can Be a Volunteer There are many ways
Local tips explain how to volunteer without club membership. Get your parents OK first and contact the local volunteer action center or bureau via Yellow Pages. Inquire at school about service clubs and projects and check with any parent volunteer organization involved.
Families Volunteer to Help Communities Across the Country
Family groups including mothers fathers and children volunteer in diverse projects. One family adopts an elderly person to visit another trains disabled people for the Special Olympics and another family serves as role models for a troubled mother and her six children while the father is in prison.
Red Cross Youth Volunteers In Schools Deliver Aid
Red Cross Youth Volunteers in schools number about three and a half million. Guided by teachers they run community projects and aid children abroad. Students prepare friendship boxes with pencils brushes combs and small toys for needy children. They also make albums for foreign youngsters and tray favors for rest homes and hospitals.
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Facts and creatures in brief
The Dead Sea lies on the Jordan Israel border and is about nine times saltier than ocean water. Lobsters move faster backward than forward and hunt mainly at night. Adult male lions reach up to 12 feet in length and 600 pounds, feeding on large prey like zebras.
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