Family Service To The Community

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Family Service Project

TakeItHome October Idea: Family Service Project.

This month, as the weather warms up, the challenge to us is to find a service project to do with your family. Make sure you involve the whole family in your project! 

Some examples:

• helping an elderly or single parent neighbour clean up their section ready for summer. 
• if someone you know works in a rest-home, ask if you can help serve morning or afternoon tea and chat with some of the people there.
• put a bin in your living room where your family can add grocery items to give (as a family) to the local foodbank.
• go through your clothes and toys and put together a box of good quality gear to take to the salvation army store.
• clean up the rubbish at a local park.
• make a meal together and deliver it to a single parent, elderly neighbour or family who have just had a baby.

Website with other ideas: 30 Excellent Ways To Make A Difference

If you have the resources to do the following, why not try this. Have a family discussion about the charities and aid organisations in your local area who need help. Pick the top 6. Then, for the next month, choose one charity and collect goods that they would need, placing them into a bin in a prominent place in your house (so it doesn't get forgotten). At the end of the month, phone the charity to ask if you could deliver the goods and have a talk about what they do with the whole family. Repeat with a different charity. You may need to call the charity at the beginning of the month to ask what they need. This is a good way for your children to discover whether they have a passion to volunteer for the particular charity in the future. Examples include: Foodbank, women's refuge, SPCA, hospice, foundation of the blind...