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YAC Executive Board Brainstorms plans for the rest of the year
YAC Executive Board met from 7:00-8:00 am, 2/27/2014 at the Wing
Attendance:
Seniors: Katie H. and Emily F. Minutes by Emily and Mrs. Clay
Juniors: Jessica G. and Sidney J.
Sophomores: Aubrey H.
Freshmen: None
Charities: Children's Hospital and Boys and Girls Club
Reports
RAK Week:
Valentine Placemats and Positive Tomorrows cards and care packages: Successful Sidney and Sindi
Plans
March, April or May??
STUCO-YAC Connected for National Volunteer Week-Crazy Fun Week benefiting Children's Hospital. Katie and Emily will work on this. When ????
March
Boys and Girls Club Tennis Clinics - Dylan
March 1:
*YAC /Casady Service Learning present Peace Stone Soup @ UCO, 8:45-10 AM
* Girl Rising Free Screening at Arts Center sponsored by Oklahoma City Friends of the United Nation, The Arts Center is located at 3000 Pershing Blvd, in the State Fair Park,Oklahoma City
March 8: UN Luncheon in honor of Women's month. Anyone interested in attending needs to talk to Mrs. Clay
March 10: Children Hospital Dinner - Help with singers, musical performances, arts and crafts
Video Game Drive Sidney is the YAC chair facilitating this project
March 29: Muslim Voices Book Club starts. Casady Service-Learning is one of the collaborating organizations bringing this enhancing diversity opportunity to OKC and Casady
March 29, 7:00 PM Location TBA: Youth LEAD OKC will feature a documentary. Sidney will provide information soon
April
- Athena Day: April 3
*Collaborate with teachers organizing 1/2 day of service and 1/2 day of workshops at school and the community
* Mrs. Clay is working with Children Hospital/Ronald McDonald House, Food Bank and UN Girl Rising Screening as possibilities
_ April 10 and 11: YAC features Peace Week at Casady School at NYLC Conference in DC
-RAK National Volunteer Week in collaboration with STUCO: Crazy Fun Week Connections??
(April 6-13 celebrate it with Acts of Kindness around school and in the community)
-April 7: President Volunteer Service Awards in Chapel. Goodies for winners, banquet idea for next year
. Mrs Clay is working on this, but will need YAC members not receiving awards helping deliver the awards at chapel and make the goodie bags
- April 11-13 Do something for Global Youth Service Day. Mrs. Clay in DC featuring Peace Week
- Do something for Mr. and Mrs. Miano
-Give goodies to firefighters and policemen
-April 15th: YAC organized Easter Egg Hunt if funded by Chapel budget for supplies. Jessica will talk to Father Blizzard. Ideas: egg decorating competition, peep competition, 4 school advisories egg hunt
- April 19th: Applebee's Pancake Drive : End of the Year thing like Holi last year! Jessica will work on this, but needs helpers
Need teachers(help in the kitchen), students(bus tables) , friends and family (clients) on board
May
-Do Something for the Moore Tornado survivors. We have people in our school Mrs. Castro's family
-Service banquet with non-profits, YAC members and Presidential Award Winners; Demonstration of learning through service and thank you to non-profit volunteer coordinators helping the Casady Service-Learning Program mission of peace at the heart of service and YAC's objective of being entrepreneurs of peace and social justice finding a personal passion to help the community making a difference they can measure.
Community opportunities
What and Who? The Oklahoma City chapter of the United Nations Association is proud to present free screenings of the highly acclaimed film, "Girl Rising."
Where and When? To Be Determined by interested organizations. The UN youth board has purchased the DVD and are interested in promoting the movie in Oklahoma City.
If interested in facilitating a movie screening for your organization contact: Michelle Rodriguez
merodriguez425@yahoo.com
Kellen Moore
KCMoore20@yahoo.com
Priya Desai
pdesai8606@yahoo.com
The movie is provided free of charge, you have to have a place where to show it, equipment and a possible audience. Donations are requested at the end of the movie, but not required. The goal is to raise awareness.
"Sokha was a Cambodian child of the dump; orphaned and forced to pick through garbage to survive. But, through a series of miracles, Sokha finds her way to school and, like a phoenix, rises to become a star student on the brink of a brilliant and once unimaginable future."
<> "Wadley is just 7 when the world comes crashing down around her. Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake destroys her home and school, but it cannot break her irrepressible spirit nor extinguish her thirst to learn, even as she’s turned away from the schoolhouse day after day."<> "Though her brothers go to school, Suma is forced into bonded labor at age 6. The Nepali girl endures years of grueling work by expressing her sorrow in beautiful music and lyrics. Suma glimpses a different future by learning to read, the first step on the road to freedom."
( Read more synopses at the Girl Rising website ... here )
"Girl Rising" shows that, when you educate a girl, you can break cycles of poverty in just one generation."
Here's what people are saying about Girl Rising:
“Girl Rising gives me hope. It gives me hope for the future of our girls, that they will have a chance to explore and achieve their full potential. That they will make the ignorant part of society value their existence and that they will be proud to be born a Girl!”
– Freida Pinto
“Girls’ rights will be the focus of the 10x10 Initiative when... award winning journalists and film-makers will expose in the new documentary Girl Rising just how unfair the distribution of educational opportunities is for so many millions of girls around the world.”
– Gordon Brown, Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; UN Special Envoy for Global Education.
“This film gives visual corroboration to knowledge we already have: Educating women and girls has the most optimistic, positive effects on families, communities, and economies worldwide. If to see it is to know it, this film delivers hope; reasonable, measurable, tangible hope that the world can be healed and helped to a better future!”
– Meryl Streep
“10x10 is building a global campaign, working with partner organizations on the ground to demand and actualize equal education for girls and women. Their slogan? Educate Girls, Change the World. I couldn’t agree more.”
– Cecilia Attias, President and Founder of the Cecilia Attias Foundations for Women; former First Lady of France
