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The Office of Student Life provides students with opportunities to become involved in the community, to learn about themselves and others, and to experience first hand a variety of issues affecting
both our community and society as a whole.
What does the Office of Student Life provide?
Resources for and assists in the coordinating of community volunteering opportunities in our community. We work directly with local agencies to provide opportunities to make a difference in our community for students.
Contact: Tracy Reed, 211 Lares Bldg, 215-881-7508
Volunteer with children, the elderly, animals, those that cannot read, and much more. Make your time count, volunteer for something that you are passionate about changing.
Why not help from your desk chair?
The Breast Cancer website needs your help. By entering the site and clicking on "donating a mammogram" window in the middle, you can help support the donation of free mammograms from corporate sponsors to underprivileged women.
Fight hunger. The United Nations Hunger website, and somewhere in the world a hungry person gets a meal at no cost to you.. Visit the site below and pass it on.
Want to help children around the world have good health care? All you need to do is go to the site below and somewhere in the world a corporate sponsor will donate towards charity partners who use the funds to:
- Distribute vitamin A, strengthening young immune systems and improving resistance to disease. Vitamin A supplementation also prevents as many as 400,000 cases of childhood blindness each year,
- Administer oral re-hydration formula to children with severe dehydration, a serious killer of children under five worldwide,
- Make a prosthesis (usually a foot or a leg) to enable child amputees to walk and lead active lives,
- Restore lost eyesight through simple surgeries that reverse blindness caused by cataracts and trachoma,
- Test pregnant mothers for HIV as a step toward preventing mother-to-child transmission of the AIDS virus.
With the simple, daily click of the purple "Feed an Animal in Need" button, visitors fund bowls of food for formerly neglected or abused animals now living in shelters or sanctuaries. Visitors pay nothing. Site sponsors pay for all funding, which benefits two leading animal welfare charities: The Fund for Animals and North Shore Animal League America. Click below and help our animal friends.
http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com
Volunteering Around the Area
Police Athletic League
The Abington Police Department operates two Police Athletic League (PAL) centers - Glenside-Weldon Elementary School and Willow Hill Elementary School - as a way to prevent juvenile crime and violence by giving young people supervised places to enjoy a wide variety of activities with friends and have fun. These sites are open most Friday and Saturday nights from 7:00-11:00 p.m. Volunteer support is needed at both PAL sites to cover all areas where kids participate in activities. People are welcome to attend once to sample this opportunity. Volunteers might oversee kids signing in, sell refreshments at the snack table, or supervise activities. If they enjoy the experience and want to return, they are asked to complete some necessary paperwork. They may then choose to commit to a monthly or weekly schedule.
Volunteers In Policing (V.I.P.) Those 18 and older may serve the Abington Police Department as Volunteers In Policing (VIPs). They are asked to give four to five hours a week. This time is flexible for day or evening volunteering. Possible tasks can include community outreach programs to seniors, home security surveys, clerical and phone work, data input, department tours, and assistance with special events.
For more information contact 215-881-7508
YMCA
The YMCA needs volunteers to help with greeting people and serving refreshments for special occasions and handling the phones in general.
For more information contact Colleen Provost at 215-884-9622 ext. 255