(to be sung to the tune of "Silver Bells")
City Teens,
City Teens,
It's summer-time in the City!
Here they come,
Time for fun,
We all love our City Teens!
Musically-questionable Christmas carol parodies aside, I am thrilled to announce the start of the 2008 City Teens Project. Let's hear it for teenagers who care!
Each year, East End Cooperative Ministry recruits a group of teenagers who are looking to do more with their summer than sleep, swim, and play video games. The City Teens commit to volunteering at least seven hours each week with EECM, usually working in our Hunger Programs. They perform "typical" volunteer duties like packing Food Pantry bags and helping prepare meals for the Soup Kitchen, but they also play a vital role in helping to organize and oversee the many groups that visit EECM over the summer.
During the summer months, we get regular shipments of youth groups and other community groups that come for a weekend or for week-long service projects, and the City Teens show the newcomers the ropes and help find good projects for them to work on. It's great -- the City Teens gain leadership experience while helping others and the visiting groups have a knowledgeable person guiding them.
Over the next days and weeks, we'll be featuring a number of our 2008 City Teens on the blog, from profiles about participants to posts written by the City Teens as they share their summer experiences. Stay tuned!
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