Service Area: International
ORGANIZATION & ITS MISSION
Plan USA
Is part of a unique, global alliance of caring individuals
like you - a worldwide community sharing a common
agenda for child-centered development and the well-being,
rights and interests of the world's children. Plan strives to
achieve lasting improvements in the quality of life of
deprived children in developing countries. They do this
through a process that unites people across cultures and
adds meaning to their lives by enabling deprived children,
their families and their communities to increase their
ability to participate in and benefit from their societies.
They foster relationships to increase understanding and
unity among people of different cultures and countries; and
promote the rights and interests of the world's children.
Heifer International -Overlook Farm, Rutland, MA
Heifer International offers hungry families around the
world a way to feed themselves and become self-reliant.
Children receive milk, eggs; families earn income for
school, health care and better housing. Farmers learn
sustainable, environmentally sound agricultural techniques.
LOCATION &
CONTACT
INFORMATION
www.planusa.org
Linda Raftree
linda.raftree@planusa.
org
800-556-7918
Plan USA
155 Plan Way
Warwick, RI 028861099
ACTIONS THAT STUDENTS
CAN TAKE
Ideas for action are numerous.
Child Trafficking; Students would do research on the
problem, beginning with Plan's website and would
then raise money to donate to the Plan grant fund for
Child Trafficking;
Education for All: Students would do research on
education in developing countries, beginning with the
Plan website and would raise money for Plan's
Education for All grant fund).
Scott Bryson cell
(978) 886-3970
Beth Thompson
Beth.thompson@heife
r.org
1-508-886-2221
Overlook.farm@heifer
.org
Over look Farm,
216 Wachusett St.,
Rutland, MA
www.heifer.org
Half or full day program at the farm with video and
tour of the facilities. Part of program will be
volunteering on the farm, for example, helping with
the animals.
Must come for a full day program, including “a
peasant meal”, educational session, and work.
Mission is to educate about poverty.
HOURS TO WORK &
NUMBERS OF KIDS
ORGANIZATION
CAN HANDLE
2 groups of 10-20.
Discuss with Linda
Details about Child
Trafficking can be found at
http://www.planusa.org/conte
ntmgr/showdetails.php/id/56
and details about Education
for all can be found at
http://www.planusa.org/conte
ntmgr/showdetails.php/id/68
Students who volunteer for
Heifer must organize
themselves into groups 10 to
20 and select one person from
each group to call Beth
Thompson. She will arrange
a date for the kids and their
adult chaperone(s) to visit
Overlook Farm on Saturdays
or Sundays. Mention Pollard
Middle School in Needham
Session is from 9.30 a.m. –
3.00 p.m.
Service Area: International
ORGANIZATION & ITS MISSION
LOCATION &
CONTACT
INFORMATION
African Baobab is an organization linking Boston area
volunteers with rural villages in the Mbale district of
Uganda in Eastern Africa. Their goal is to improve the
quality of life of the two million orphans due to HIV/AIDS
pandemic. Through development projects African Baobab
creates opportunities for improving socio-economic
conditions that directly benefit the health, education, and
welfare of caregivers and guardians of orphans.
www.AfricanBaobab.o
rg
P.O.Box 331
Needham Heights, MA
02494
Ron and Jackie
Shepherd
781-449-3412
ACTIONS THAT STUDENTS
CAN TAKE
Ron and Jackie Shepherd will work with students to
develop service projects. Some suggestions are
writing letters to children or acquiring school
supplies, food. Last year Pollard students ran a very
successful auction in one student’s home.
HOURS TO WORK &
NUMBERS OF KIDS
ORGANIZATION
CAN HANDLE
Can accommodate any
number of students
Please organize as a group
before calling. Have one
group member call.
Can have more than one
group for different projects.
Service Area: International
ORGANIZATION & ITS MISSION
Darfur- Save Darfur from Genocide
A local resident, Alan Greenfield, is running an awareness
raising campaign for the Genocide Crisis in Darfur. Even
though Sudam is far away, the human rights concerns there
should concern us here in Needham.
LOCATION &
CONTACT
INFORMATION
Ms. Berman, Gr. 8
Office
Alan Greenfield –
a.Greenfield@comcast
.net
Contact Ms. Berman
as the first step.
Equal Exchange
Organization was founded in 1986 to create a new
approach to trade, one that includes informed consumers,
honest and fair trade relationships and cooperative
principles.
www.equalexchange.c
om
50 United Drive, West,
Bridgewater, 02379
Julia Knott
jknott@equalexchange
.com
774-776-7371
ACTIONS THAT STUDENTS
CAN TAKE
• research the Darfur situation in order to educate
others.
• display green Darfur signs outside your home
• invite others – peers, teachers, neighbors, relatives
to display signs
• prepare presentation to educate others about Darfur
• develop ways to raise awareness about Darfur in
communities outside Needham
• write informed letters (or make calls) to Senators
and Representatives to ask what they are doing about
Darfur, and to voice your opinions (these actions
really do get recorded and noted)
• write letters to local newspapers, Needham and
Boston, urging citizens to become involved and
suggesting what citizens might do
Organization will educate groups of students at the
Equal Exchange facility in West Bridgewater about
the organization. This would include how to
approach a store about fair trade principles and
products such as coffee and hot chocolate. The
students would then choose a store and lobby for the
business to carry the fair trade product. This could
also include educating the public about fair trade
products.
HOURS TO WORK &
NUMBERS OF KIDS
ORGANIZATION
CAN HANDLE
Contact Ms. Berman to
discuss your project ideas.
Can accommodate 2 or 3
groups of students with 10 to
15 students per group.
Call to schedule.