By Luke Daniels Ponchatoula High School Key Club Vice President Division 13A
Happiness Through a Sheet of Paper
“Caring— our way of life.” This motto that every school’s Key Club and member follow is the basis of Key Club International. The strive to assist others and make a difference in the community is at the heart of each member, and is what makes Key Club members so special. The way that members are able to fulfill this desire to serve is through service projects and community outreach. Service projects are the link between a member and their community. They allow a member to make a real difference in the world, to reflect on their own personal life and to grow from it. At Ponchatoula High School, we aim to give as many of these opportunities to our members as possible, and in the most fun way too. Recently, we were able to decorate door hangers for the local nursing home with a seasonal message on it, and deliver it to the nursing home! We held a meeting with all the members to let them create these door hangers, which were as simple as a piece of large construction paper, and gave them some ideas of what to put on it. The officers had the idea to do this each season to keep this project an annual one, and since it cost little to nothing, it was very easy to carry out. By doing this project, it not only gave a great opportunity to light up an elderly person’s day, but it gave the members a chance to interact with older folk who may not get to talk to many people during their stay at the home. A project as easy and simple as this one, which we titled “Happiness Through a Sheet of Paper”, can be the very thing that gets your club more active and involved!
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