Donate+Your+Time+(Teens)

//Here are some great ways you can help others in your down time.//
 * Have some extra time?**

__In your community__: >> >> >>
 * ** Volunteer at a health fair. ** Help provide free and low-cost health care for your community. Visit the 9 News Health Fair Volunteer website for more info.
 * ** Volunteer as a counselor at local summer camp. ** There are many different types of camps that would love your help, including: music, art, equestrian, faith-based, sports, outdoor camps and much more.
 * Colorado Day Camps
 * Colorado Overnight Camps
 * **Volunteer at a homeless shelter** (view map of Colorado homeless shelters)
 * Assist in a shelter day-care room - taking care of children while parents look for jobs.
 * Make first aid kits for homeless shelters.
 * Set up a Saturday Reading Hour where you visit a homeless shelter once a month, bringing books to share and leave behind.
 * Help cook and/or serve a meal at homeless shelter.
 * Gather clothing from your neighbors and donate it to a local shelter.
 * Make "I Care" kits with combs, toothbrushes, shampoo, etc. for homeless people.
 * Make a care package with mittens, socks, T-shirts, etc. for a child at a homeless shelter.
 * Pack and hand out food at a food bank.
 * Organize a neighborhood group to plant, tend and harvest a vegetable garden; donate the produce to a food bank.
 * Sponsor a food drive at your school or parent's workplace or business.
 * Bake a batch of cookies and deliver them to a soup kitchen or homeless shelter.
 * Raid your closet and attic to find toys and clothes to donate to a homeless shelter.
 * Assist with sorting and organizing items donated to a homeless shelter. .....Assist in a shelter day-care room, taking care of children while parents look for jobs.
 * Collect items to deliver to homeless shelters (blankets, sheets, towels, toys, books, disposable diapers.)
 * Become a Big Buddy for one or more of the children at the homeless shelter**.**
 * Clip coupons and give them at your local food pantry or homeless shelter.
 * ** Volunteer to do office work at a local non-profit agency. **
 * Colorado non-profit organizations
 * ** Volunteer to lead a club or share a talent by teaching a class for youth. **
 * **Volunteer to mentor or tutor young students** (K-8 grades) at your local elementary or middle school. Contact us at teachtoserve@gmail.com and we will find a place for you to mentor/tutor.
 * **Volunteer to teach a foreign language class/club** at your local elementary school, homeless shelter, orphanage, or church.
 * **Volunteer to lead an assembly** at a local elementary or middle school to teach them about other cultures, or specific skills that you may have (karate, juggling...).
 * **Create a play that teaches young children how to stay safe at home.**
 * ** Run or walk in a charity race with friends. **
 * Colorado running races for 2011
 * **Volunteer to help at charity auctions.**
 * **Take a life saving class.**
 * Colorado Red Cross Life Saving classes
 * **OFFER YOUR SPECIAL SKILLS TO HELP OTHERS!**
 * If you are a member of the mechanics club at your school, consider offering **FREE OIL CHANGES** to low-income members of your community or for the teachers at your school as a thank you
 * If you're good at fixing bikes, **volunteer to teach others how to fix their bikes.**

__At your school__:
 * **Form a SWAT team at your school**. SWAT stands for Students Who Assist Teachers. SWAT members would help out teachers, staff and parents before or after school, or during community events at the school.
 * **Start a community service club at your school**. You could brainstorm different ways to give back to the community together.
 * ** Organize a drug free pledge campaign. **
 * **Sponsor an "awareness campaign" at your school** to make others aware of certain global problems (such as the HIV virus or malaria) or awareness of how to treat people with special needs or disabilities.

__From Home__:
 * ** Visit FreeRice.com to donate rice to hungry people by correctly answering trivia questions **. You can also answer math, geography, science questions and much more. This is sponsored by the United Nations World Food Program.
 * ** Visit one of the website below to help out others JUST BY CLICKING! **

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