Service Project Groups

Environment

Potential Topic Issues

• Green Energy
• Organic Farming
• Environmental concervation

Sample Projects and Activities

• Planting trees with Friends of Urban Forest
• Visits to relevant environmental and agricultural organization, such as the Sierra Club in San Francisco.
• Learning and volunteering at a Sunnyvale Community Garden

Health and Disabilities

Topic Issues

• Social attitudes and inclusiveness towards people with disabilities
• Mental health stigmas within Asian and Asian American communities
• Care of the elderly and aging societies
• Care of veterans

Sample Projects and Activities

• Two days volunteering as counselors with disabled children: Camp Costanoan
• Art project with disabled veterans:
• Discussion on mental disabilities and tour of clinic Veterans Affairs Hospital
• Visit and art project: Kimochi senior citizen center

Homelessness and Poverty

Topic Issues

• Root causes of homelessness in urban and suburban areas
• Government assistant programs
• NPO services
• Corporate Sponsors

Sample Projects and Activities

• Delivery of meals to bed-ridden AIDS/HIV patients: Project Open Hand
• Work in soup kitchen and thrift shop: St. Anthony Foundation
• Affordable housing construction project: Habitat for Humanity

Download 2008 AUSL Application