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Show TMmvdm ,,zzrzzzzzrizz;iii. Viking Clubs "Trick or Treat" for Charities to Receive Money Donations Instead of Candy by Danica Baird On Halloween, various clubs from Pleasant Grove High School went trick-or-treating, but not for candy. These students stu-dents went trick-or-treating for charities. Two of these clubs were Hope Projects and Key Club. Hope Projects is a new club that has joined the ranks of other service clubs at the high school. Hope Projects is currently thirty members strong and is supervised super-vised by Mr. David van Dijk. Van Dijk, who is also the advisor for Operation Smile, received a pamphlet in the mail about this organization and decided to start this club at the high school. Hope Projects Foundation Founda-tion was organized in 2000 to help poor villages improve their lives in the High Andes of South America. Hope Projects helps these people build the facilities they need to survive. All labor is provided by the villagers themselves them-selves and 100 of the donations dona-tions to Hope Projects goes directly di-rectly to villages. Pleasant Grove High School has adopted the village of Huama with a population of about 7,500. The high school has the ambitious goal to help rebuild this village over the next five years to ensure long-term long-term changes. They hope to provide a clean water system, build a school, build multiple greenhouses, provide animals for breeding to improve diet and nutrition, and provide materials ma-terials for one large income generating project decided by the villagers. During their trick-or-treating fund raiser, they were able to raise over one thousand dollars. dol-lars. Anyone who would like to make a donation to Hope Projects Proj-ects should contact David van Dijk at atvandd779 alpine . kl2.ut.us. Another trick-or-treating activity was sponsored by Key Club. Key Club is affiliated with the Kiwanis Club and is a service-oriented club strongly involved in community service. For their October service proj ect, this club teamed up with thousands of people across the United States to participate in Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF. This has become an annual tradition that students look forward for-ward to. According to UNICEF, 10 million children in Africa Afri-ca under the age of five die from preventable deaths every ev-ery year. UNICEF's goal is to lower this number to zero by providing clean water, improving im-proving nutrition, providing" medicine, and offering health education. Since Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF's founding 60 years ago, they have raised over 160 million dollars. Former President John F. Kennedy once said, "UNICEF "UNI-CEF has caught the imagination imagina-tion of our people, especially our nation's children whose Halloween collections have become a symbol of concern and an expression of tangible aid." According to UNICEF, seven cents provides fifty kids with safe water each day and nineteen dollars buys three mosquito nets to protect pro-tect three children against malaria. No matter how small the contribution to Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF, it will make a difference and help save a child's life. With that goal in mind, Key Club participated in this noble cause. Club President Keslee Kirby said, "It's fun to hear the excitement of other students stu-dents and see the enthusiasm enthusi-asm they get from serving." Although the money is still being counted, currently current-ly they have raised almost two hundred dollars. Anyone Any-one who would iike to make a donation should contact Amanda McCollum at amc-collumalpine.kl2.ut.us amc-collumalpine.kl2.ut.us by the end of this week. Hundreds of Pleasant Grove High School students stu-dents can be seen every year trick-or-treating for charity. char-ity. These students dedicate their time and effort to try to make a difference in the world, and they are accomplishing accom-plishing that goal one penny at a time. |