The Dickinson County Envirothon Team, a competitive group of environmentally conscious students from two school districts who meet regularly to learn about the local environment and how to preserve it, will organize a recycling initiative for #5 plastic bottle caps. These caps, which are currently not collected at the local recycling center, are being thrown away, clogging up our landfills, and wasting resources such as gasoline and oil. The team will set up collection bins for the caps at local stores. Bins will be set up in March, and collected on Global Youth Service Days April 15-17. read more »
The benefits for healthy eating are also wonderful: fresh, self-grown vegetable can encourage healthy eating as well as a great source of food for low-income families that live within Hillyard community (the lowest-income neighborhood in all of Washington state). Exposure to "green" spaces has also been known ro reduce stress and build feelings of calmness and relaxation. Finally, community gardens offer a unique opportunity to establish relationships in youth and adults across otherwise oppressive physical and cultural boundaries. read more »
The students of Helix Charter High School will be led by Helix SADD Club in recycling cans and bottles beginning on the Global Youth Service Days (April 15-17) and continuing from then on, on the campus of Helix Charter High School. We are enacting this program because our school of 2,400 students currently has no recycling program. Creating a recycling program is not only critical in creating student awareness about the environment but also in bettering our community. read more »
The BIG Sweep is HandsOn Frederick County's annual county-wide beautification project that engages over 1000 volunteers and raises money for participating area nonprofits. Structured like a walk-a-thon, participants collect donations from family, friends and other supporters for their chosen nonprofit. Instead of walking, however, BIG Sweep participants pick up trash from over 80 Frederick County roadsides, waterways, parks and illegal dump sites. HandsOn Frederick County plans this event as their GYSD project because it is a perfect fit for engaging youth volunteers and youth voice. read more »
On April 16, 2011, City Year Washington, DC will collaborate with the school to complete a project that will physically transform and improve the environment for the students and surrounding neighborhood. read more »
We are going to build organic raised garden beds on April 16th, 2011 for Global Youth Service Day. read more »
The King of Norway is coming in October 2011 to rededicate Enger Tower to the City of Duluth. But the Tower and surrounding Park are in desperate need of repair and restoration.We are planning an all-day event open to the public at Enger Park on April 15th, 2011 including: invasive species identification training, buckthorn and litter removal, plotting of an indigenous plant garden, geocaching, lunch, and a Poetry Slam celebration. read more »
he educational goals of this proposed project are to enhance and extend the required grade level curriculum of plant life cycles, habitats, and ecosystems for students, increase student achievement in these subject areas by providing unique learning opportunities (inquiry based, tactile learning, etc.), and to increase parent and community involvement for the benefit of the student's education. read more »
The LA (Leadership & Activity) Club associated with our CONECT program will form an Invader Squad to remove invasive plant species from trails and parks in Plymouth, Minnesota -- a suburb of Minneapolis.CONECT is a collaborative project that offers on-site services and resources around housing stability, youth success, and community building to more than 800 low-income families living in 8 multi-unit apartment complexes. read more »
With Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) acting as the kick-off to our project, we will work with youth to prepare the rain barrels for painting. The barrels will be distributed to artists and schools following GYSD where we will provide educational activities and will be presented at an open house event. The Willowell Foundation operates from a 230 acre plot of land that includes a high school place-based education program, a youth-led community garden and a wetland restoration project. read more »
