Dominique Sherrod is an Associate Director US Member Engagement at the Golden Key Headquarters here in Atlanta Georgia. Dominique will be responsible for grassroots membership communication and helping local Golden Key chapters drive awareness and launch events on campus. She oversees the US Western region, […]
Korey T.D. Felder is an Associate Director US Member Engagement at the Golden Key Headquarters here in Atlanta Georgia. Korey will be responsible for grassroots membership communication and helping local Golden Key chapters drive awareness and launch events on campus. He oversees the US Eastern […]
UCT GK Service decided to hold an Easter egg drive to collect eggs for the children of Maitland Cottage Home, Leliebloem Child and Youth Care Centre, Tenterden Place of Safety and James House.
We advertised the drive using social media, email and posters placed around campus. We were overwhelmed by the generosity of UCT students and staff members, as over 700 Easter eggs were donated!
On Thursday 24 March, UCT GK Committee members visited Maitland Cottage Home. Maitland Cottage Home is a hospital for children who have suffered orthopaedic injuries. The children, mostly bed ridden, were delighted by our visit and the special appearance of the Easter bunny. The committee handed out Easter eggs, chatted to the children and played games with them.
Next, we visited Leliebloem Child and Youth Care Centre (CYCC), a home for children orphaned by HIV/ AIDS and a place of safety for children who have been abused or come from homes where unemployment, drug and alcohol abuse are prevalent. Sadly, the Easter bunny could not join us this time, but the children were extremely excited to receive a handful of Easter eggs.
We also dropped off chocolate eggs at James House, who distributed the eggs to the children in their ISIBINDI and BEST projects. The ISIBINDI project provides a community- based model of care for infants and vulnerable youth, it serves a large number of children and their caregivers in the community of Hout Bay. The BEST (Building Emotional Stable Teens) project aims to give a vision and direction to teenagers who are at risk in the community due to challenging home circumstances.
Our final stop was Tenterden Place of Safety, a safe home for children who have been abused or neglected. We dropped off boxes of marshmallow eggs for them to use in their own Easter egg hunt on Easter Sunday.
We are so grateful to everyone who donated Easter eggs and to all those involved in this initiative. It was so rewarding to see the chocolate covered smiles of all these deserving children!
Written by Katherine Tredinnick.
Jen Harlan is an Associate Director US Member Engagement at the Golden Key Headquarters here in Atlanta Georgia. Jen will be responsible for grassroots membership communication and helping local Golden Key chapters drive awareness and launch events on campus. She oversees the US Northwest […]
Tamela Patterson is an Associate Director US Member Engagement at the Golden Key Headquarters here in Atlanta Georgia. Tamela will be responsible for grassroots membership communication and helping local Golden Key chapters drive awareness and launch events on campus. She oversees the US Northeast and […]
This month’s featured service project highlights the SPARK a Change projects at the US Regional Summits. The project consisted of members being given scenarios that have happened to chapters while they are planning SPARK events. For example “Your chapter is planning and event with a local community partner, the partner backs out three weeks before the event, what do you do now?” Members came together to solve these issues and their work will be put into a document and listed on the chapter toolkit to help chapters solve issues that arise. The second part of the project was to write cards to the children who will be attending the Golden Key Kiddos Camp this summer. The goal was to have enough cards so every child could have a card sent home with them every day after camp.
Want your SPARK project featured? Email Katie Hiatt at khiatt@goldenkey.org.
This month’s featured service project highlights Howard University who teamed up with Capitol Christian Academy for a Financial Literacy event. The event brought together 30 students with Golden Key executive members as well as a bank executive from SunTrust Bank. The group discussed what financial […]
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