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"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing
I know: The ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."
- Dr. Albert Schweitzer |
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Balboa Park Hiker Safety Project On Tuesday morning, Jan 16th, 200 dedicated volunteers will help create a safe place for hikers and joggers at this beautiful trail at Balboa Park. Winding down through the forest, the trail offers rare seclusion in the midst of the busy city. But undergrowth creates potential hiding places on both sides, preventing users from seeing clearly who may be around them. We will work with the Rangers to clear away this brush, making the trail safer and more beautiful. |
Jan 16, 2007 |
In Balboa Park near 6th Street and Laurel
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Walk for African AIDS Orphans This fall the San Diego chapter of Service for Peace will hold another walk, similar to the Walk for Wheelchairs that launched our chapter in April last year. Our goal is to collect $30,000 in one Saturday afternoon to help the more than 800,000 children around the city of Durban in South Africa who became orphans when their parents died of AIDS. Like the Walk for Wheelchairs, all proceeds from the walk will go to the Rotary foundation, where it can compete for a 10 to 1 matching grant. The money will be used to buy trucks that will deliver food leftover from hotel buffets and bakeries to locations where the AIDS orphans are being cared for. |
Fall 2007 | San Diego's Mission Bay Park |
Reports of Recent Events
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| Nov. 4, 2006 |
SFP Joins La Mesa Park Appreciation Day Service for Peace volunteers helped beautify a La Mesa gem as they joined the city-wide La Mesa Park Appreciation day. They weeded and smoothed out playground sand at beautiful La Mesita park near Parkway Middle School. |
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| Oct. 21, 2006 |
Service for Peace Volunteers
"Sweat for Shade" for Students at King/Chavez Middle School in Barrio Logan Over 30 volunteers pitched in to build a sunshade and paint benches for students in the first phase of a service project organized by Service for Peace at the King/Chavez Academy Middle School in Barrio Logan. The volunteers represented a wide cross-section of people from around San Diego County, including Service for Peace volunteers, SDSU students, Rotary Club members and students and staff of the school. |
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| Jun. 3, 2006 |
Clearing the way for classrooms
at King/Chavez Charter School Service for Peace volunteers spent a sunny Saturday morning clearing away weeds and moving parking lot bumpers to make way for new portable classrooms at King/Chavez Academy of Excellence. Youngsters painted pictures on a wall near the lot to discourage tagging by gang members. |
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Apr. 4, 2006 Apr. 11, 2006 |
Days of Service in La Mesa
Service for Peace worked with Parkway Middle School, the City of La Mesa, and the Wal-Mart stores at Grossmont Center and Parkway Plaza to beautify the Junior Seau Sports Complex, which consists of two football/soccer fields used both by the City of La Mesa and Parkway Middle School. We pulled weeds, trimmed plants, and restored plantings on an eroded embankment between the sports fields and the school. A temporary fence was erected to give the plants a chance to reestablish themselves. |
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| Jan. 16, 2006 |
Dr. Martin Luther King Day of Service at Gompers Charter Middle School The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service brought together volunteers from all over San Diego County to celebrate the legacy of Dr. King through serving their community. They painted walls and poles and made banners at Gompers Charter Middle school in the disadvantaged Chollas View neighborhood of San Diego. |
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| Oct. 11, 2005 |
Environmental Day of Service On Oct. 11th, the people of San Diego saved thousands of dollars, and endangered seabirds gained desperately needed nesting sites, as over 150 volunteers, including 120 Wal-Mart associates, joined the Wal-Mart Day of Service, an environmental project organized by Service for Peace in San Diego. |
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| Jul. 1, 2005 |
Computer Mentoring at Serenity House San Diego's Summer of Service continued on July 1st when 12 Service for Peace volunteers taught computer skills to women recovering from drug and alcohol dependencies. It was the first of a series of computer mentoring sessions that were offered at Escondido's Serenity House. The sessions gave residents of the recovery center a chance to gain the basic computer skills they will need to find high-quality jobs. |
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| Jun. 23, 2005 |
Big Animals Attack Serenity House! Twenty San Diego County Service for Peace volunteers donned animal costumes, painted faces, and created merriment in league with volunteers from Big Animals for Little Kids, all to entertain about 40 mothers and children residing at the Serenity House center in Escondido. The event marked the kick-off of the 2005 San Diego Summer of Service. |
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Apr. 16, 2005
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Walk for Wheelchairs Raises $5,500 to Buy Wheelchairs
for Middle East Children Service for Peace volunteers and others from a wide range of San Diego area groups walked 12 miles around Mission Bay April 16th and raised over $5,000 to buy 67 wheelchairs for children maimed by Middle East violence. Over 80 people, including Muslim, Jewish, and Christian youth, participated in the trek, which brought funds to the Wheelchairs to the Holy Land Project, which aims to send 1,000 wheelchairs to Israel and Palestine this summer. Each $75 pays for one wheelchair. |
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