[20238] in APO-L
Service Opportunity: Absolutely Incredible Kid Day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David O'Leary)
Sat Feb 27 19:01:02 1999
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 01:41:01 -0500
Reply-To: David O'Leary <doleary@JUNIPER.NET>
From: David O'Leary <doleary@JUNIPER.NET>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
Absolutely Incredible Kid Day is an annual, national program of the
Campfire Boys and Girls. March 18, 1999 will be the third time this
event has been held. The basic idea of the project is a huge letter-
writing campaign to the kids everywhere - ideally from adults to kids
that they know, but any kid who needs to know that someone cares is
a candidate!
Lots of information about the project is available on the Campfire
web page at http://www.campfire.org
The national email address for the project is kidday@campfire.org
Specific service opportunities for chapters interested in this project
can:
Write letters to kids as individuals or as a chapter. These
can be any kids - your friends, relatives, neighbors kids,
or kids that you have met through one of your service projects.
If you don't know any kids, contact your local Campfire council,
Salvation Army, or perhaps a lcaol social services agency for
suggestions. Who knows, you could make a new friend, and more
importantly, be a new friend!
Promote Absolutely Incredible Kid Day on campus or in community
by putting up flyers on campus or in the campus newspaper.
(coordinate with local Campfire council)
Staff mall exhibit on Absolutely Incredible Kid Day - some
councils will be placing tables at local malls on/around
Kid Day, and they need help for people to staff the tables
(explaining the purpose of Kid Day, etc.). Contact your local
Campfire council about opportunities in this area.
Both Campfire Boys and Girls and the APO Scouting and Youth Service
Committee are interested in any success stories with Absolutely Incredible
Kid Day. Alpha Phi Omega will be listed on their web page and literature
as a supporter and participant in the event.
If you have questions, please check first on the Campfire web page
(http://www.campfire.org), then check with your local Campfire
council (note that not all areas in the country have a local council).
If you still can't find an answer, please contact me (email
to doleary@juniper.net is best).
Thanks for your help and support!
Dave O'Leary
National Scouting and Youth
Service Committee
