service. leadership. fellowship.
Cambridge Senior Center
Once a month, the senior center throws
a party for its community, and YOU are invited! Socialize with others,
join them for lunch, and do a little dancing while you're at it. http://www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/~DHSP/coa/
CASPAR (Cambridge and Somerville
Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Rehabilitation)
This center is actually a homeless shelter,
not a rehab center. Every other Friday afternoon, we prepare dinner for
CASPAR. We leave the student center around 3pm. Email idnar@mit.edu or
jerwin@mit.edu for more information.
http://www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/~DHSP/volopsalpha.html
under "CASPAR"
FACT (Families Accessing Computer
Technology, a division of Communitech)
Help teach families the basics about computers!
You don't have to be course 6 to tell them how to use a word processor
or sign on to the internet. There will be two teaching sessions held at
MIT.
Harvard Soup Kitchen
Members make weekly trips to the kitchen
to help prepare, cook, and serve meals.
Margaret Fuller Tutoring and Food
Pantry
Tutoring opportunities are also available
at the Margaret Fuller House. Email jerwin@mit.edu for more information.
Boys and Girls Club of Somerville
Last year, a handful of Circle K members
volunteered roughly an afternoon a week to read with the kids at this after-school
club. Tutors are needed to help children in elementary and middle school
with their homework. They also play with them after homework has been completed.
Time committment is flexible. Contact Tara at 628-4665.
17.903 Community Service: Experience
and Reflection
If you've wanted to work as a volunteer
in Boston/Cambridge but didn't know where to begin, take this class. Combine
experinial learning with reading, writing and reflection on urban politics
and policy. Work as a volunteer in a community service agency or an advocacy
group and receive MIT credit. Tutor kids, teens or adults; cook and serve
dinner for guests in a shelter; help design community programs for youth;
conduct research on nutrition, hunger and homelessness policies; volunteer
to work wit the elderly; record books for the blind and dyslexic; teach
a dance or an art class; do something about racism, poverty and human rights
issues and many more! Class can be taken for up to 9 units and is P/D/F.
This class is offered during the fall and spring terms, as well as during
IAP and the summer.
