Community Service

A Tibetan tent in the Newark Museum

Simple Serve came out of a constant need to learn about and fix things around the community. With a background in Sociology that was born with the essential understanding to bring change in the world, to live the change you believe it- this has been the basis of my volunteering efforts.

I write this blog to enable others to find something to do and also for people to know what can be done. To bring "change" to small things, to attitudes, to thoughts. Being involved in the Township Schools, in the Environmental Commission, co-organizing the Earth Day Fair for the last two years in the spring and being a part of Ootsav second time in a row this year- is in many ways a small attempt at doing that.

From the perspective of an outsider to growing to be the insider- this has been a learning and fruitful experience. I am a huge believer of the fact that community service creates dependencies in a good way that can bring about a feeling of connected-ness; of mutual respect and caring for within a townspeople.

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Talk about the American experience to south Asian women and what it has meant to them to live, make a living and settle in the US.

Ootsav and the bringing together of the community.

This is what the people said via Ootsav! 2015- Of course I support the library! Because people like us do things like this! People came out and supported the effort by the community. I was quietly surprised when I saw the ambush of the volunteers at the first volunteer meeting at the library. We did not have a clear agenda for the day of (we had one for the meeting). We did not know how and what we would do eventually- but we all knew one thing- we all wanted to give back to the community. To give back to the library in manifold ways, in ways that cannot be quantified. Paraphrasing Seth Godin- the reason for the existence of donors/ volunteers and non-profits is that we don't know how to solve some problems in the world. Problems that are unprecedented -like the economic recession and what it did to our economy and then to our library. When we move to volunteer and fundraising for a cause, we take risks which don't make profitable sense. This risk basically pu...

A TO DO LIST (NOT MINE, COPYRIGHT CURRENTLY LOST) FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE- CHOOSE ONE AND LET ME KNOW. * Start a bat education program for nature centers and schools, including a travel box and talk, as well as helping the community set up neighborhood bat boxes. * Create a program for educating parents on the dangers of lead poisoning and present it at community events. * Create a pedestrian safety campaign in your community; present the need for a stoplight in your community at a busy intersection to your local city council based upon your research. * Develop a breast cancer awareness program in your community for mothers and teens through local women's church groups. * Organize a chapter of SADD and plan a campaign for safe graduation parties in your community with representatives from the different high schools. * Develop an anti-bullying program for children that includes a drama component and peer counselors. * Plan and host a student art show as part of a commu...

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