Service Projects

A Family Visit to Equine Advocates Horse Sanctuary Farm Tour

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Despite the rain this past weekend, I took my family out for a farm tour and visited Equine Advocates’ horse sanctuary in Chatham NY for their first open house day of the year. The Open Day is a self-guided tour, where you can read about each of the animals background and current info. It was [...]

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In The Heart of Haiti – Bloggers Make a Difference

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Last summer, when I took my kids on a volunteer vacation in the Dominican Republic, I had a chance to travel into Haiti with my teenage daughter. We crossed over the Dajabón border to the open market where Haitians trade in goods donated from around the world for basic staples, fruits, vegetables, and livestock. Our [...]

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Do It For The Kids: Stop SOPA and PIPA!

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I’m interrupting our regularly scheduled programming to talk about freedom. By now, even the most die-hard Luddite will have heard about the hotly-debated legislation that would censor the Internets – SOPA and PIPA. The bills before Congress don’t state the intention to put a stranglehold on creativity, but well, there are writers who have explained [...]

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Teach a Child to Read, and You Feed Him For Life. Help Build Libraries In Zambia & Win Great Prizes Too!

by Sandra Foyt

I have seen many sad things in my travels. Children begging on the streets of Bogota, Colombia. Families huddled along roads leading to Delhi, India. But the saddest thing I ever saw was a bare school in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam – no computers, no art supplies, and saddest of all, no books. Libraries [...]

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Do Good Family Adventure – A Volunteer Vacation In The Dominican Republic

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Last May, when I was still ambivalent about going on a volunteer vacation in the Dominican Republic, Mommy Niri convinced me to go. Although I had signed up for LATISM’s Sustainable Development Project, I was strongly considering backing out. The problem was that I would be traveling alone with my children to Monte Cristi, an [...]

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Service Project Ideas

by Sandra Foyt

Earlier, I wrote about how we developed service projects with kids from service project ideas to community-wide take action projects. The article lists what we did to learn about various issues and includes leadership resources that helped us undertake service projects. But the important take away is that service projects should be community-driven; that is, [...]

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Service Projects with Kids: From Ideas to Take Action Projects

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When I first volunteered to lead a troop of Brownie Girl Scouts, it was because I wanted to introduce young girls to new friends and a wider world of opportunity.  Little did I know at the time that this decision would change my world. Even though my background was in Human Rights Advocacy, I learned [...]

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Trick or Treating To Do Good

by Sandra Foyt

Children look forward to that one day of the year when the candy coffers are opened wide and they can bring home enough sweet treats to keep dentists in business the rest of the year. Yes, we’re talking about trick or treating on Halloween. I’m all for this tradition – I’ve done my fair share [...]

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Turning to Cloth Diapers to Set a World Record, and Save the Earth too!

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It’s been a real, real long time since I even had to think about changing diapers. And, honestly, I tried using cloth diapers for about 2 seconds, before sticking to Huggies all the way through. I’m not proud of it, but convenience won out every time. That’s why I have great admiration for parents who [...]

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