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Written by Haley McCabe
Every student at M-A has heard of the famous Key Club. The Key Club, an international organization, participates in and organizes various community service projects throughout their communities. Students join the M-A Key Club for all different reasons: it looks good on college applications, it helps students make new friends, or it is a fun activity for a Wednesday lunch period held in D-10. Whatever the reason, no one can deny that the kids in Key Club work hard to help the community.
With only about forty members, the Key Club may seem small, but still manages to benefit the M-A community immensely. Currently, Key Club is working on a clothing drive. Sasha Bobrowicz, a sophomore in the club, reveals the details.
“All of the clothes donated are going to the Haven House, which is a local homeless shelter. Anyone can drop off gently used or new clothes in the library foyer to benefit homeless families.”
The clothing drive will continue through winter break, so be sure to do your part and donate any old or unused clothes.
In addition to the clothing drive, Key Club has another major project in progress. The members are working to help an adolescent girl named Charity pay for her high school education in Kenya. This isn’t a new project for the club; they supported her through her first year as well. Bobrowicz shares the Key Club’s reason for supporting Charity:
“In certain parts of a Africa, going to high school prevents young women from being sold as wives to older men and being forced to have children at a very young age—some as early as thirteen years old.”
Not even a holiday break could stop the students in Key Club from helping out: on Veteran’s Day, a few of the key-clubbers got together to help out the Alzheimer’s patients in a retirement home in Woodside. Sophomore Taryn Thiele-Sardina says,
“On Veteran’s Day, we made cookies for the Alzheimer patients… volunteering like this makes me feel like I’m making a difference in our community.”
The cookies were delivered to local Alzheimer’s patients around the area and were greatly appreciated. The young men and women of M-A’s Key Club are constantly working hard to help the students of M-A and people all around the area.
Despite all the hard work Key Club is doing now, they still have even bigger plans for the year. The members want to become more involved with Leadership and Outreach because they share similar goals, hoping that this will help increase the popularity of Key Club:
“This way,” she says, “people can be more involved in our club without having to worry about the time commitment.”
The members of the Key Club spend many hours of their free time volunteering as they are encouraged to put in 50 hours of community service a year. They volunteer almost every other weekend, ranging from all-day events to two hour-long activities. So if you’re not doing anything on a Wednesday at lunch, go check it out—it’s definitely worth it.
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December 3rd, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Great article Haley!!!
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December 9th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Great article about MA Key Club!
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