Campus event for the TEACH kids & Volunteer opportunity for TEACHies
Amanda Tran
I’m part of a non-profit organization on campus called Medical, Educational Missions and Outreach (M.E.M.O.). Our humanitarian organization has the goal of providing for under-served communities abroad and local by addressing health and education, much like TEACH does. This quarter, we are putting on a special event called Kids’ Day on Saturday, June 1st, 2013 (National Children's Day), inspired by an existing program we do abroad called the Hope Program. On this day, we will be hosting foster children at UCLA’s Sunset Recreation Center through Olive Crest (an organization that provides safe homes, counseling, and education for at-risk youth and their parents) along with any other kids that would like to attend. The whole idea of this day, as it is with the orphans we visit in Vietnam through M.E.M.O.’s Hope Program, is to play games and inspire kids to be healthy, active, and balanced despite their struggles. We would like to invite kids from all over to this event, so I'm wondering if perhaps we could bring the TEACH kids and maybe even their families to the event. Please let me know if this is possible; I think it would be a lot of fun as a TEACH event. We're hoping to get an accurate number of kids attending to provide enough food and activities for them.
This event will require lots of student volunteers to set-up and run various games and activities for the children. We would like to inspire the kids by showing them a memorable time at Kids’ Day, where we can engage the children in friendly competition and cooperation with their peers along with the many scholars, athletes, leaders, and quality community m
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bers attending UCLA.
If any TEACH members would like to help, please sign up to volunteer your time on Saturday, June 1st. The event will be lots of fun. We will provide free refreshments, snacks, and [hopefully] an event t-shirt for each volunteer. Thank you for your support and the positive impact you will be making in these the lives of these children.
Please fill out this volunteer form to help us accommodate all volunteers: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1u-SbejBFuZwAk6o3RTmDF0mytQopZRg_DU_H_etrb0E/viewform
To learn more about our M.E.M.O. at UCLA, visit www.studentgroups.ucla.edu/memoatucla/
To learn more about Olive Crest, visit www.olivecrest.org
Please contact us if you have any questions!
Sincerely,
Amanda Tran