My family and I started helping Big Brothers and Big Sisters in 2010 and continue to do so to this day. In Gallup, there are two major fundraising events, The annual Bowl for Kid’s sake and the Annual Golf Tournament. My contribution to the to the events are; setting up before, taking down after, cooking, running errands, occasionally fundraising, organizing and helping during the events when they need help. Every month they host activities for the adults and kids that are in the program during Christmas they have cookie decoration, during Halloween, they have pumpkin decorating and during Easter, they decorate Easter eggs. When my town has, a community event the BBBS board will go and set up a booth to help recruit more members, I go and make
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I started to volunteer to help during the summer two years ago, at the kids festival. The Kid’s festival was hosted every Tuesday and Thursday during the summer. They have activities for the kids set up and I kept in charge of the kids, helped them when they asked for it. They have smaller events for the children during the holidays of Christmas, Easter and New Years. They have booths set up and one person oversees a booth, my usual booth is the face painting. Because my town is so heavily populated with Native Americans the activities that the mall host are filled with Natives. Some of the parents see the activities as a day care for them to drop their kid off and do their errands. The adults once had to call the cops and child protective services because after a mom dropped off her child she went to a bar and got drunk and when she came to pick up her child she smelled of alcohol and she was driving …show more content…
The Rotary of Gallup has their focus on education. The money the club makes is put to scholarships for seniors. Every month two students, a boy, and girl, are rewarded for their academic achievements and given a 1,000-dollar scholarship. Within the group of students, a few are awarded a senior of the year, where they receive a bigger scholarship and award. Within the year, the rotary club host’s fundraisers to produce the scholarship money. They host an annual golf tournament and different fundraisers throughout the year. High education among the Native Americans is low. It’s common for a kid to drop out to help their families with money or they can’t afford to go to college or they get involved with alcohol, drugs or gang violence. My tribe the Hualapai’s, the people are very uneducated. Recently a young woman got her associates in college, it was a big deal that she was in the tribal paper, she got a scholarship and she went to talk to the kids in school to motivate them to go to college. The kids who don’t go off to college stay in Gallup and its harder for them to leave and easier for them to get involved in the wrong way of
I started to volunteer to help during the summer two years ago, at the kids festival. The Kid’s festival was hosted every Tuesday and Thursday during the summer. They have activities for the kids set up and I kept in charge of the kids, helped them when they asked for it. They have smaller events for the children during the holidays of Christmas, Easter and New Years. They have booths set up and one person oversees a booth, my usual booth is the face painting. Because my town is so heavily populated with Native Americans the activities that the mall host are filled with Natives. Some of the parents see the activities as a day care for them to drop their kid off and do their errands. The adults once had to call the cops and child protective services because after a mom dropped off her child she went to a bar and got drunk and when she came to pick up her child she smelled of alcohol and she was driving …show more content…
The Rotary of Gallup has their focus on education. The money the club makes is put to scholarships for seniors. Every month two students, a boy, and girl, are rewarded for their academic achievements and given a 1,000-dollar scholarship. Within the group of students, a few are awarded a senior of the year, where they receive a bigger scholarship and award. Within the year, the rotary club host’s fundraisers to produce the scholarship money. They host an annual golf tournament and different fundraisers throughout the year. High education among the Native Americans is low. It’s common for a kid to drop out to help their families with money or they can’t afford to go to college or they get involved with alcohol, drugs or gang violence. My tribe the Hualapai’s, the people are very uneducated. Recently a young woman got her associates in college, it was a big deal that she was in the tribal paper, she got a scholarship and she went to talk to the kids in school to motivate them to go to college. The kids who don’t go off to college stay in Gallup and its harder for them to leave and easier for them to get involved in the wrong way of