How can you help your community?

There are many ways to get involved in your community. You can volunteer at a hospital, an old age home, a rehabilitation facility, volunteer at a soup kitchen, attend walks, donate food or toys or books, volunteering at a doctor's office, donating blood, volunteer in the library.

There are many ways to get involved.

Here are some walks you can attend that support various causes like Heart disease, homelessness, Down syndrome: Deborah-Walk-A-Thon, Going the Distance, Walk for Hope, Making Strides Against Breast cancer Walk, jingle bells walk, CARE walk, march of dimes, etc.

There are also other opportunites:

· Toys for Tots: Give disadvantaged kids toys for Christmas and other occasions

· M.C.F.O.O.D.S. (the Middlesex County emergency food network): Donate food cans and other types of goods in order to help underprivileged families feed their children

· Expand horizons in March of Dimes: Currently our FBLA chapter is selling wristbands but there should be more ways to help premature babies. For example, we can have pizza sales, a charitable event, the sale of stuffed animals or flowers, etc.

· Soup kitchen (Elijah's Promise Soup Kitchen,etc): go to the soup kitchen in order to help make and distribute food to underprivileged families

· Children's Hospital: raise money for children

· Backpacks for Foster Children: provide essential supplies and emergency needs to help foster children with their transition to new homes

These are only a few ways to get involved in your community but there are many more. You can find out from your school counselors or ask around.