Community Service Opportunity

Students:  One of the most important things you can do to help get into college and qualify for scholarships is participating in community service.  There are many opportunities to serve and help in Santa Clarita.  Today I want to tell you about Help The Children in Santa Clarita.  Help the Children feeds over 5000 families in Santa Clarita.  They give food weekly to families, veterans, and the elderly.  People do not have to prove they make below a particular income in order to get help.  So if you know of someone that doesn’t have enough food, PLEASE tell them about Help The Children.

You can help in many ways.  One of the ways is through Help the Harvest.  Do you have a backyard with fruit trees?  Would you be willing to donate some of the fruit from the trees?  Help the Children will come to your house and pick the fruit to give to families in need in Santa Clarita. 

During the summer, Help the Children would really appreciate volunteers to help them pick and deliver the fruit.  This would be a great community service opportunity for you.

Help the Children also has a facility in the Industrial Center.  Every week families go to pick up food, and Help the Children would love it if you or your club, or your family could come and volunteer a few hours any time in the year.

Help the Children has many different opportunities to serve throughout the year.  At the beginning of the school year, they collect school items to help children.  At Thanksgiving, they collect the goods for Thanksgiving meals and at Christmas, time you have the opportunity to adopt a family and help provide a Christmas meal and presents. 

Help the Children is located at 25030 Avenue Tibbits, Suite L in Valencia.  Their phone number is 661-702-8852.  If you have any questions, please stop by and talk to Mrs. Goller in the counseling office.