Projects
Camp Quest: The LAJCC hosts 100 city children to a day of team building play and exercises at Camp Keystone in Agoura Hills. Children are given the opportunity to test their own limits on a zip line and to learn the benefits of teamwork in small groups throughout the day.
Disneyland: As a reward for perfect attendance and doing the additional reading, students in the Ready to Learn program, along with some of their schoolmates who have perfect attendance – for a total of 80 children, most of whom have never been to Disneyland – are treated to a day at Disneyland. We provide the buses, the admission tickets and Disney dollars for the children to use for purchasing lunch and a souvenir. Twenty LAJCC members accompany the children to assure their safety and that they have a good time. Leaving their school at 8 am and returning at 6 pm, the children have the day of a lifetime.
Halloween Harvest: Each Autumn we load a bus full of city children and take them to see corn fields and hay mazes along with Halloween festivities at Pierce College’s agricultural campus. Most of these children have never seen a cornstalk or a farm field, which the Harvest enables them to do.
Holiday Elf: We are aware that Santa isn't able to visit all families in Los Angeles so the LAJCC "adopts" a needy family or two. As a group, members shop for items on the family's holiday wish lists, wrap them and deliver them before Christmas.
Ready-to-Learn:
This monthly reading program aims to help first graders at Aurora Elementary school improve their reading, develop a love of reading and encourage school attendance. The students at Aurora are nearly all from Spanish speaking homes so they really need the extra help to improve their language skills as well. In addition to reading with an adult LAJCC member, the students also do an art/craft related to the reading, bringing in an element of fun. Each child receives a special “gift” and book to take home with them.
Please RSVP with Cheryle Babbitt at (213) 989-2157 or email at cbabbitt@lajcc.org.
Remember to wear your blue volunteer shirt.
July 12, 2008
Photos by Michael Christopherson