International Region Chapters Cluster Service Project Highlights

International Region Cluster Service

The International Region is excited to join our collective efforts to improve and protect the environment in our communities. In conjunction with the 2022 Atlantic & Pacific Cluster Conference, chapters performed service projects that align with our Soaring administrative program initiative "Enhance Our Environment" This initiative focuses on community and home gardens and/or waste reduction. These are effective activities that have a measurable impact by reducing negative environmental impacts and promote sustainable agriculture. Chapters can also educate their local communities on effective practices that decrease household waste including recycling, composting, and using reusable water bottles.

OBJECTIVE

To promote sustainable agriculture and reduce household waste in your local community Project ideas encouraged chapters to • Teach a gardening class or classes • Plant a tree (gallon pot size) • Start a community garden • Build a raised garden bed or beds, also called garden boxes • Prune a shrub or tree • Host a cleanup effort in your community • Organize a recycling drive. Collect cans, bottles, toys, clothes, books, etc. and take them to your recycling center or a charity in need • Install a garden fence • Host a composting program

Cluster Service projects were conducted at schools, homes, parks, or community centers. Each chapter was empowered to

Soar to Enhance your Environment!

Cluster Service Project Highlights

ETA BETA OMEGA Monrovia, Liberia

We worked with an orphanage and a community based school to help them start their agriculture programs by clearing a plot of land, creating garden beds, and planting some crops.

MU GAMMA OMEGA

St. Croix, US Virgin Island

Mu Gamma Omega chapter continues to impact our community with projects to “Enhance Our Environment”. Our Cluster project highlights sorors maintaining our island’s community gardens, creating opportunities to recycle, and composting at home to reduce waste in our landfills.

MU PSI OMEGA

Germany

Mu Psi Omega sorors organized a drive recycle clothing - providing to those in need

Cluster Service Project Highlights

PI UPSILON OMEGA

Freeport, Grand Bahamas

Pi Upsilon Omega is starting a community garden at Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Academy. Members participated in a seed planting (tomatoes, onions, broccoli, peppers) activity with students and planted two guava trees at the school. The Chapter also donated potting soil, planters and other gardening supplies to the school. Members planted 1,908 mangrove seedlings as a part of the WaterKeepers Bahamas Mangrove Mania to restore mangroves destroyed in Hurricane Dorian and last weekend our Basileus and First Anti-Basileus joined the wife of the Prime Minister of the Bahamas to plant breadfruit trees at the local shelter for abused, abandoned and neglected children.

Chapter member cleaned a beach on the islands of St.Thomas and St.John.Mania to restore mangroves destroyed in Hurricane Dorian and last weekend our Basileus and First Anti-Basileus joined the wife of the Prime Minister of the Bahamas to plant breadfruit trees at the local shelter for abused, abandoned and neglected children.

Members of Phi Omicron Omega and their families participated in Beach Clean Up days around Japan and Guam. Beach cleanups are a great way to get involved in the preservation of our global waters. Removing trash and debris from beaches help foster healthy and thriving bodies of water. Debris in the form of plastic bags, microplastics, fabrics continually pollutes our streets, waterways, and beaches. Cleanups provide opportunities to help protect and restore the environments. The goal is to unite communities through service, responsibility, and sharing of the natural environment. Removing debris from beaches reduces the effects of pollution in our oceans. Contributing to ocean conservation through action helps to sustain the environment that offers us life.

SIGMA THETA OMEGA

St. Thomas/St. John

PHI OMICRON OMEGA

Okinawa, Japan

Cluster Service Project Highlights

PSI BETA OMEGA

Tokyo, Japan

PSI DELTA OMEGA

Windsor-Ontario, Canada

Members of Psi Delta Omega sponsored and put together a Peace and Wellness room at the Hiatus House - a women’s domestic violence shelter, in Windsor. Intent was to repurpose a neglected area of the center to provide a sanctuary for women at this shelter. Recycling an area to create a dedicated wellness reflection room to support women at the shelter. To help with the enormous task of rebuilding the emotional stamina of the women at Hiatus House, PDO transformed an underused room into a room that can be used for prayer, meditation, reflection, and solitude. Room was repainted and furnished to complete the project.

OMEGA THETA OMEGA

Dubai/Abu Dhabi

Members of Omega Theta Omega gathered together for a tree planting activity. Omega Theta Omega was able to plant a collective of 10 trees and garner a total of 20 community service hours.

Cluster Service Project Highlights

ALPHA ALPHA DELTA OMEGA

Toronto, Canada

Our sorors planted both at home gardens and working with the children in our community - a Green house, restoration of the Burning Bush, children planting in the gardens, and several sorors planting herb gardens, green houses, flower gardens, and in-door planting.

A brunch time event featuring a gardening class and a discussion on environmental sustainability led by speakers; Dr Dolapo Fasawe, General Manager, Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency and Kayode Olaniyan Principal Consultant, Avant-garde Innovation and Technology Services & Convener -

ALPHA ALPHA OMEGA OMEGA

Lagos, Nigeria

Cluster Service Project Highlights

RHO XI

University of the Virgin Islands St. Croix Campus

RHO OMICRON

University of the Virgin Islands St. Thomas Campus

Rho Xi Chapter held a beach clean up at the Little Bay Beach. Our Clean Up Squad was able to enhance our environment by reducing 52 pounds of waste. Rho Xi Sorors also collected plastic bottles to contribute to their ongoing Ravishing Recycling Drive on the University of the Virgin Islands, Albert A. Sheen Campus.

Rho Omicron held a Toy drive for a local care center. We collected toys, books and donated them to the University Day Care in a reusable bin.