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Contact: Silvana Clark
360-933-4046
silvanac@msn.com
Who Needs
Oprah? Teen Author Supplements Oprah's Big Give
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
