On September 15th, 2018, Alyssa, Sharleen, Jada, Joshua, Sammy, Tiffany, and Cross went to Crown Memorial Beach in Alameda and participated in the International Coastal Cleanup Day. We spent two hours picking up litter. Collectively, our group picked up about 900 pieces of litter, of which 582 were tiny plastic pieces, and 327 small pieces of foam! There were cigarette butts, food wrappers, and fishing wires. We even found a pair of scissors!
On 1/27/2018, my mom and I volunteered at Salvation Army to help low-income seniors fill out applications to receive free food baskets for Chinese New Year. Our Cantonese and Mandarin came in handy as very few of them spoke English.
We were asked back on 2/10/2018 to enter the application into the computer system. I recruited Evelynne and Amanda to join us. We had to catch duplicates and verify their family information.
On 12/17/2017, my mother, father, Kylie and I went to Salvation Army to help sort and organize gifts by family number. We also picked presents for kids based on their wish list and age group. We met Olivia (12) and Alex (16) who also volunteered with us. On 12/20/2017, we came back with my friend Penny (12) to pass out the bags of toys and food.
On 11/21/2017, it was our fifth annual Thanksgiving volunteer event. My mother, sister and I served lunch to over one hundred seniors for their celebration. We met Trinity who was a new volunteer.
International Coastal Cleanup Day is celebrated annually on the third Saturday in September. Last year, over half a million volunteers removed over 18 million pounds of trash from beaches, coasts and waterways in 112 countries. Trash on the beach and in the water is bad for the environment. Occasionally, aquatic animals or birds will eat plastic because they think it is food. When they eat too much off it, they die.
On September 16th 2017, Alyssa, Kylie, Sharleen, Dan, Jada, Joshua and Kieu went to Crown Memorial Beach in Alameda and spent two hours picking up litter. Collectively, our group picked up over 700 pieces of litter on the beach. Out of that 700, 403 were plastic pieces! There were cigarette butts, food wrappers, packaging foam, and plastic sand toys. Some other things that different people found included a ceramic incense holder, dolls, sunglasses, and part of a Halloween costume.
Our group had the privilege of meeting Alameda Mayor Trish Spencer, Todd, a Rotary Club member, and his daughters, Madison and Hayley. Becca with the Park Service patrolled the beach. We observed over 200 other volunteers that day!
Everyone came together because we wanted to have a clean beach and a healthy planet. We didn’t want animals dying because of the trash choking the Earth.
We volunteered at Salvation Army’s Garden Center location to serve Thanksgiving meal to about 60 people. We volunteered 4 hours in total.
We went to the ACCFB to bag apples. 13 of our allies (Emily, Jada, Macie, Raina, Jessica, Sammy, Jason, Petra, Devra, Iris, Chrissy, Alyssa and Sharleen) did a total of 36 hours. Along with other volunteers bagged 16,799. That’s over 32,000 meals just in time for thanksgiving.
My mom and I went to Satellite Central Senior Housing to serve food for a Thanksgiving celebration. I’ve served meals for 4 years now. The seniors love to see a young face serving them meals. They are very happy to see me year after year. All the volunteers enjoy a delicious meal afterwards.
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