Soup Kitchen CAS/REACH opportunity

Activity name: Soup Kitchen
When: First Saturday of Every month normally starting at 10 am
What: Every month the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Geneva serves a meal to around 100 homeless or indigent local people.  We welcome student help with chopping chicken and vegetables, preparing salad, and serving the food.  This involves 2 to 3 hours of work. 
Where: It is located directly behind Gare Cornavin, but lifts are available from the school (leaving at 9h30).

Who: In general, regulars are preferred since they will have some idea what to do after the first visit, but first time participation is encouraged including those just sampling the activitiy.  French language skills are welcome but not needed.
For further information please contact Mr Evans-Klock john.evans@cdl.ch

Serve the City – Saturday October 15th

Serve the City are again looking for volunteers who want to make a difference. All this will be happening Saturday October 15th.

1/ Ali Baba – sorting of donations

We seek about 10 volunteers from 9:00 to 14:00. A shop with second hand goods, available for the poor, needs to be cleared out before it’s opening.

Route de Saint-Julien 85, 1228 Plan le Ouates

2/ Gardening

We are looking for 2 strong males from 9:00 to 12:00. The entrance of one of the locations of Carrefour-Rue, a partner organization, is being rearranged. The perfect work-out for you!

Rue Baulacre 10, 1202 Genève

3/ Praparing the zoo

We are looking for 4 persons from 9:00 till 13:00. We will be preparing a cage of the Bellevue Zoo to receive its animals

Route de Valavran 33, 1293 Bellevue

For further information please contact stuart.allan@cdl.ch or vincent.puttemans@gmail.com

Vaud Panda Club

Panda club in Vaud, organises outings all year round for 7-14 year olds to take them on the walking paths in the canton of Suisse Romand. All the outings are based around the central WWF themes: such as protection of the environment, the discovery of animals or an environment. The outings are lead by Panda Club monitors and are normally accompagnied by a specilist.

Go to the following website for further information and information to sign up. http://www.wwf-vd.ch/

2011 Gift Box Appeal

MADS is again organising the gift box appeal for the High School and Second Cycle.
The boxes go to underprivileged children in schools and orphanages in Eastern Europe such as Belarus.
  • The boxes must be unisex
  • For children aged 4-14. 
  • It is essential that each box contains all of the items included in the attached list and in approximately the quantities given.
Boxes can be left in CR215 until November 23rd. Each box must have one of the labels with the items ticked attached to each box.
For more information please follow this link or email caroline.ross@cdl.ch

Serve the City

CDL is collaborating with an NGO called Serve the city (http://www.servethecitygeneva.ch/)  on the weekend of Oct 1st. There shall be a series of Geneva-wide community service projects, with enough variety for everybody to find something they like.

The various activities are:

  • serving at the soup kitchen
  • helping set up equipment for a bike race that will raise funds for needy children
  • helping out at the bike race
  • showing kindness to the elderly in various ways
  • giving free hugs
  • facepainting

This may interest students who need CAS/REACH hours, but really, everybody is encouraged and welcome!

If you need any more info, please ask Stuart.allan@cdl.ch , Laurence.grabit@cdl.ch , or yasmeen.tawfik@cdl.ch .

 

Serve The City Geneva from ServetheCityGeneva on Vimeo.