Dear E-Chronicle Subscribers:

We received the following communication from Danielle Jacobs of the National Service-Learning Partnership and we want to share it with you as a resource for the young people that you serve.

"As we return to our classrooms and youth programs this week, we are all faced with the tragedy of the tsunami disaster in the Indian Ocean. Already students, teachers, and schools, churches, youth programs across the country have begun organizing to help meet the needs of this unprecedented emergency situation.

Resources to assist you in your classroom and school disaster relief projects are now available online.

UNICEF and Do Something, two organizations with a track record of strong service-learning, have created new materials to help educate and fundraise in your classrooms and schools.

UNICEF Youth Action Tsunami Relief:
http://www.unicefusa.org/youthaction

Includes a step-by-step guide to planning and organizing a fundraising activity, the latest news on the tsunami relief efforts, and downloadable canister wrappers for use in fundraising. A two page guide to youth action for tsunami relief is available here as a word document: http://www.service-learningpartnership.org/teaching/tsunami.cfm

Do Something Kids Tsunami Relief Fund: http://www.dosomething.org/donations/kids-tsunami-relief-fund.php

Provides ideas for youth-led fundraising, discussion questions, resources for parents and teachers to talk to young people about the disaster, learning activities related to water and population, and examples of youth-led projects.

We will continue to update available service-learning resources to tsunami relief projects in the coming weeks on our website at:
http://www.service-learningpartnership.org/teaching/tsunami.cfm

Sincerely,
Danielle Jacobs
Membership Director
National Service-Learning Partnership"

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