The
popularity of Oprah's new reality show, The
Big Give, has encouraged people to
volunteer. Yet what can you do when you
don't have an Oprah sized budget as your
"seed" money? How can you get kids to
volunteer if you don't feel comfortable
taking your six-year-old to serve soup at a
homeless shelter?
18-year-old Sondra Clark's seventh book, 77
Creative Ways Kids Can Serve (Wesleyan
Publishing) gives kids practical and easy
ways to volunteer. So often, kids are told,
"Do something for others!", yet they don't
know what to do. Sondra's book gives
practical tips such as:
· Collect old tennis balls to donate to
animal shelters as toys for dogs.
· Offer to decorate Sunday School bulletin
boards.
· Decorate lunch bags and fill with a
granola bar, juice pack and small toy as
Bedtime Snack Sacks for kids in a homeless
shelter.
· Conduct a gently-used shoe drive for
Soles4souls, which then distributes the
shoes to people in need. www.soles4souls.com
· Work with your church to offer an
"Introduction to Computers" class for senior
citizens.
· Collect new hats to donate to Heavenly
Hats for cancer patients.
With the emphasis on volunteering from
Oprah's new reality show, The Big Give,
people want to get involved. Parents and
youth group leaders looking for practical
ways to demonstrate Christ's love will find
easy-to-implement ideas in 77 Creative Ways
Kids Can Serve.
Sondra serves as a positive role model for
youth by speaking at schools, churches and
service clubs around the country and
overseas. She stresses the importance of
volunteering while appearing on shows such
as The 700 Club, CNN, Fox, Pax, Discovery
and The Hour of Power. Sondra's volunteered
in Kenya, Uganda, Peru, Guatemala and Mexico
and has raised $85,000 to help educate
children she met in these countries. Her
program, FUN With A FUTURE collected and
shipped 12,000 pens, 5,000 shoes, 5,000
toothbrushes and 1,000 Frisbees to Peru and
Africa. Sondra's book serves as a resource
to help youth find ways to serve people,
animals or the environment.
To
schedule an interview with Sondra, contact:
Silvana Clark-360-933-4046-silvanac@msn.com
