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<br />National Youth Service Day: YouthWice America <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />Page 2 of3 <br /> <br />10. Offer to pick up groceries with/for a senior citizen <br />11. Help senior citizens in your neighborhood obtain and install <br />locks or smoke alarms <br />12. Teach a senior friend hot to use a computer or the Internet <br />13. Get a group together to sing or present a play at a nursing <br />home <br /> <br />School Activities <br /> <br />1. Paint a mural over graffiti <br />2. Organize and invite local police officers to present a drug <br />awareness or bike safety assembly <br />3. Form volunteer teams for a campus safety escort service <br />4. Tutor a student that needs help learning English or some other <br />subject <br />5. Organize a canned goods drive in conjunction with a school <br />dance and donate the goods to a food shelf <br /> <br />Neighborhood Enhancement <br /> <br />1. Help neighbors paint and repair their homes <br />2. Clean up a vacant lot <br />3. Organize a campaign to raise money to purchase and install <br />new playground equipment in an area park <br />4. Campaign for additional lighting along poorly lighted streets <br />5. Paint a mural or clean up in a local park <br />6. Plant flowers in public areas that could use some color <br /> <br />For Those with Special Needs <br /> <br />1. Volunteer to help at a Special Olympics event <br />2. Set up a buddy system for kids with special needs at your <br />school <br />3. Raise money for Braille or large print books for the visually <br />impaired <br />4. Volunteer at an agency that works with emotionally disturbed <br />children <br />5. Read books or the newspaper on tape for visually impaired <br />people <br />6. Bring toys to children in the cancer ward of the a hospital <br /> <br />Politics and Government <br /> <br />1. Contact your local League of Women Voters or voter <br />registration office <br />2. Ask what you can do to help people register to vote <br /> <br />http://www.ysa.orglnysdlnysd -Pfojectidea -parent.cfm <br /> <br />1/19/2004 <br />