{"id":17085,"date":"2018-11-02T10:37:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T15:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/blog\/uncategorized\/\/"},"modified":"2018-11-02T10:37:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T15:37:03","slug":"greenheart-week-of-service-breaking-a-record-number-of-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/blog\/greenheart-club\/greenheart-week-of-service-breaking-a-record-number-of-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenheart Week of Service: Breaking a RECORD number of hours!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to our Greenheart community for making this year\u2019s Week of Service our most successful one yet! Exchange participants and alumni volunteered and logged nearly 600 hours<\/strong> in the Greenheart Club last week. Look at how some of your fellow Greenheart\u2019s spent their time serving their communities:<\/p>\n

Women’s Empowerment & Education<\/strong><\/p>\n

High School Programs<\/a> and FLEX participant, Ema from Moldova, participated in Days for Girls<\/a> by creating menstrual care kits for girls in countries around the world who would not otherwise have easy access to these products.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

\u201cVolunteering is about showing yourself and boosting your personality. I advocate towards equal rights and opportunities for everybody, that\u2019s why I decided to be a volunteer for Days for Girls,\u201d says Ema. \u201cThis organization makes me closer with the girls around the world who need our help and makes me aware of the major problems and how we can be the change.\u201d<\/p>\n

High School Programs<\/a> alumna, Yana, from Kazakhstan also helped lead a workshop on leadership for women learning about project management and gender equality.<\/p>\n

Spooky Service<\/strong><\/p>\n\"\"\n

High School Programs<\/a> participant, Vladislav from Estonia, joined a fellow exchange student and host mom to pass out candy and pens to kids who were trick or treating at a local zoo. Another fellow High School Programs community member, Ozgur from Turkey, volunteered his time at a craft fair helping local artisans sell their beautiful creations!<\/p>\n

Greenheart staff take on the Week of Service Challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n

Greenheart staff have no problem walking the walk and talking the talk! Staff members volunteered a collective 140 hours<\/strong> during Week of Service.<\/p>\n

Our Impact<\/strong><\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

We created 37 cat nip toys, 24 dog toys, 75 dog treats, and 36 cat feather toys for our animal friends at the Anti-Cruelty Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

We prepared hundreds of candles for shipment at an organization that lights the way for young moms and their kids, Bright Endeavors<\/a>. We also donated 37 canned food items to the New Moms<\/a> food pantry.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

We played Bingo with 9 new senior friends at St. Paul\u2019s House<\/a> during the camp reunion.<\/p>\n

Thank you so much for joining us for this year\u2019s Week of Service! We hope this spirit of volunteerism will continue to carry you throughout the rest of the year! \u201cNo one can do everything, but everyone can do something, and together we can change the world.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>Take a look at some more photos from our week<\/a> on Facebook.<\/p>\n

Stay up to date on everything Greenheart by\u00a0following us on both Facebook<\/a> and Instagram!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to our Greenheart community for making this year\u2019s Week of Service our most successful one yet! Exchange participants and alumni volunteered and logged nearly 600 hours <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21629,"featured_media":17093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-17085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greenheart-club","tag-greenheart-week-of-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/21629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/17093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenheart.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}