IN THIS ISSUE Message from Editor Service Spotlight Chinatown Beautification Day Hong Kong Boat Festival Friends at Rockaways Wipeout Run RLC Governor’s Project Thirst Project Upcoming Projects Contacts
Bulletin Editor Sophia Zhang Hey Hunter Key Club! I hope you all had a nice vacation and is ready to start the school year with some key club fun! My job as an Editor is to relay information about what happened in the past month(s) and update you on what is going to happen. I am very excited to be working with you guys! Club Open house just happened a few days ago and I hope you see many new faces volunteering at events! I hope you guys have a wonderful year so keep me updated! Yours in Service,
Sophia Zhang
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Hong Kong Boat Fes
Friends at Rockaway Wipeout Run
Rescue Leftover Cuis
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Chinatown Beautific This non-profit organization is dedicated to empowering New York City youth with knowledge and skills to address the needs of Chinatown, Asian Americans and other underrepresented communities.
gust 8th, 2015, volunteers from different schools o Chinatown to clean up the streets with Chin Youth Initiatives. On this day, volunteers are chance to go out onto the streets of Chinarmed with brooms, dustpans, and garbage his event not only shows the Chinatown comthat we really care, but it also shows that peoo travel to Chinatown must remember to take the community
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On August 8th, 2015, Hunter Key Club went t rona Park to volunteer for the annual Hong K Boat Festival. Depending on which station th unteers were stationed at, some of them hel the teams get ready for their race. Others he out at the various booths in the festival, such the food and the arts and crafts.
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Festival After volunteering, they were able to hang out around the festival and enjoy the intense races. The Hunter team was racing as well!
Friends at Rocka On September 12, 2015, Hunter Key Club, several Key Clubbers from Division 11, and two Kiwanians volunteered with Friends at the Rockaways to help families who were still suffering from Hurricane Sandy. Although the hurricane struck NYC three years ago, many homes are still recovering from the damages of Hurricane Sandy.
When we arrived, we immediately put on goggles and masks, grabbed a sander, and started sanding the rough spots on the walls. After sanding, we applied mud onto the drywalls with a knife and a mud pan. We also used a drill to sink screws onto the sides of the drywalls. This ensured that the walls would stay secure.
aways I really enjoyed doing all these tasks because I knew that I was helping a family fix the basement that was ruined by Hurricane Sandy. It was also satisfying to assist the worker in charge because she usually works on the house alone. At the end of the day, I was glad that I had made a difference, no matter how big or small, in someone else's life. By: Crystal Liu//Vice-President
I was really excited for Wipeout Run because I had seen it from the hit TV show, and who doesn’t love ginormous obstacle courses?! For most of the day, Key Clubbers were helping out at race registration: checking runners in, assigning bib numbers, and handing out t-shirts. This wasn’t the most exciting job of the day, but I was grateful to be inside a tent noon came and the sun hit. For the second half of the day, we were driven out to the actual course! We were stationed at the Wrecking Balls! If you aren’t familiar with the event, Wrecking Balls is an obstacle with two big red balls (think super oversized yoga balls) hanging from a contraption that continuously turns in circles. Timing was key here, and quite a few people got knocked off the floating foam tubes by the balls.
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Although I did get splashed, this was the most unique expeence I’ve had volunteering at a 5K thus far, because where else are you going to see people crawl along big pool noodles?! The commentator was hilarious, screaming BIG RED BALLS� every time someone fell into the tank of water. He also made jokes about people getting really close with the tubing when people started crawling across hype!!). Overall, I had a lot of fun at Wipeout Run, and I ook forward to being able to run the 5K next year!
By: Jackie Weng//President
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mbers of Hunter, Stuyvesant, and NEST+M Key Club ed vary over 80 lbs of food to a soup kitchen in the ancial district for Rescuing Leftover Cuisines, a nonorganization that aims to recuse leftover food from restaurants and give it to the less fortunate.
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merica throws away enough food each year to d 2 billion people. Enough to end food hunger the world! Working together, we can ensure hat only hunger is left behind. Volunteers help ring food from RLC’s partners to a local NYC homeless shelter. Join the cause!
Governor’s Project: Hunger
This year, Governor Alexis Warren has chosen hunger as the Governor’s Project. Hunger affects more people around you than you might know. Hunter is not only in “third world countries” or “the projects.” It is happening right now right in your backyard. To begin, she urges you to volunteer at your local food bank. If we can raise $10,000 for the Giving circle, we will be able to purchase a farm in Uganda and have it named “New York District Key Club Farm.”
The Thirst Project
“Today, we travel the country to middle schools, high schools and college campuses speaking to people our age to educate students about the global water crisis, and challenge them to take action to end it. When we leave, students are equipped to do their own fundraisers and make a real impact on the issue. In just seven years, we’ve raised over $8 Million and funded projects to provide over 280,000 people with safe, clean water! The need is great though. We can no longer ignore the #1 global killer of children. Our goal with Thirst Project is to provide safe, clean water and sanitation to the entire nation of Swaziland by 2022. With your help, we can give water. With your help, we can give life. “
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Contacts President: Jacqueline Weng (jackiew98@gmail.com) Vice President: Crystal Liu (crystal2345@gmail.com) Secretary: Christopher Chiang (mycena1@gmail.com) Treasurer: Andy Lok (wrestlngfanatic@gmail.com) Editor: Sophia Zhang (sophiazhangx3@gmail.com) Webmaster: Jespar Chen (chnjspo.kk4899@gmail.com) Projects head: Tammy Cheng (trunycgrl123@gmail.com) Fundraising head: Andy Chen (nameandy84@gmail.com) Publicity/Awards/Scrapbook Co-heads: Sophia Zhang (sophiazhangx3@gmail.com) Pauline Esguerra (pauline11258@gmail.com)