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All PPS members must perform at least
- 1 individual volunteer activity per month
(volunteer at event/location of your choice)
- and 1 group activity per semester
(volunteer in activity provided by PPS and listed below)
Please submit all volunteer hours at
HERE (or email to
ullpps@gmail.com).
Fall 2008 Group Volunteer Activities
(Choose at least 1 activity)
–Updated 9-19-08
- 5K walk to raise awareness for stroke and heart
diseases
- Sign up as a HELPER or a WALKER, or both!
- HELPERS will pass out water, set up, clean
up, direct walkers at the Heart Walk
- Sign up at with Lan Pham at PPS meetings
- WALKERS will help raise money prior to the
walk AND will walk with PPS as a team at the Heart Walk
- If you want to be a WALKER, sign up with Lan at
PPS meetings AND online at
www.greateracadianaheartwalk.kintera.org
- Sign up as a team member under “Pre-Professional
Society” Team
- TURN IN MONEY ENVELOPES BY WEDNESDAY,
10-8-08!!!
- Date: Saturday, 11-8-08
- HELPERS work in morning shift (6:30 AM-9:30
AM) or in afternoon shift (9:30 AM-til after the walk)
- WALKERS need to be at Elysian Fields at
River Ranch by 8:30 AM at the latest!
- Place: Elysian Fields Park at River
Ranch in Lafayette
- Buddy Walk
- 1-mile walk to raise awareness for Down Syndrome
- Sign up as a volunteer at
http://buddywalk.kintera.org/faf/home/
- Click on “Volunteer Registration” on the left-hand
panel
- Signing up as a volunteer is
FREE, but it’s first come, first serve, so do it today!
- If you want, you can also sign up to walk, BUT
the registration fee for walkers is $15.00.
- Date: Saturday, 10-25-08, from 8
AM-noon
- Place: Parc International in Downtown
Lafayette (next to Children’s Museum)
- Up ‘Til Dawn
- Address 50 letters to people you know asking for
donations for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. Letters will be provided—all
you have to do is address and sign.
- Date: Wednesday, 10-15-08, starts at 5
PM-til you finish addressing letters
- Place: Student Union Ballroom
- Journey Hospice Special Projects
- Help make blankets and gift baskets for patients of
Journey Hospice
- After PPS meetings, Lan will have supplies available
if you can stay to help. NOTE: This is very easy to do.
There is NO sewing involved in making the blankets!
- If you cannot stay to help after the meetings, you can
take supplies to do at home. Ask Lan.
- Clean Up Girard Park
- Come help pick up trash at Girard Park. Gloves and
trash bags will be provided.
- No need to sign up; just show up! Meet at the
pavilion overlooking the lake. Clean-up will last about 1 hour.
- You can come on any of these dates, or you can come to
all of them:
- Saturday, 9-20-08, at 10 AM
- Saturday, 10-18-08, at 10 AM
- Saturday, 11-15-08, at 10 AM
Questions?
Email Volunteer Coordinator, Lan Pham, at
LKP2005@hotmail.com
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
·
How many volunteer hours do I
have to do to be an active member?
o
You must perform 1 individual volunteer hour per month
and 1 group volunteer activity per semester (choose 1 activity
provided by PPS; you are welcome to do more than one).
·
If I do 4 individual volunteer
hours in September, do I still have to volunteer in October, November, and
December?
o
YES! You have to volunteer at least 1 hour EVERY MONTH.
In other words, we do not accept “roll-over” hours.
·
Do I need to submit proof of my
volunteer activities?
o
Every time you perform a volunteer activity (including
individual and group), you need to submit your hours online at
www.ullpps.org. We trust that you will be honest when submitting your
hours.
o
One member with the most volunteer hours throughout Fall
2008-Spring 2009 will receive an award at the annual PPS banquet in the spring
semester. So, submit your hours!
- I don’t know where to
volunteer for my individual hours. Do you have suggestions?
- Journey Hospice (see attached page for more
info)
- Lafayette Community Health Care Clinic
- UL Center for Child Development
- Call 337-482-5739 or email Susan Arceneaux at
srh8016@louisiana.edu
- St. Joseph’s Diner
- Call 337-232-8434 and tell them what day you want to
help
- 403 W Simcoe St, Lafayette, LA 70501-5829
- Sertoma Club—Sertoma Cajun Air Festival
- Place: Lafayette Regional Airport
- Date: November 1st & 2nd
- Contact: Jeremy Lemaire at 337-257-8508
- Or, you can come to any of the PPS group volunteer
activities to do your individual hours. Just remember, you cannot
double-dip. For example, if you do the Heart Walk in November as your group
activity for the semester, you still need to do your November individual
hour. Another example: If you come to a PPS Clean Up Girard Park in
September and choose to have it counted as your individual hour for
September, you still need to do a group activity for the semester.
- I have more questions
about volunteering. Who do I contact?
- I have
suggestions/ideas for volunteer activities. Who do I contact?
Journey Hospice needs Volunteers!
Journey Hospice is in
need of volunteers for several different projects. Listed below are some of the
projects we are kicking off this fall and really need your help. If you would
like to get involved, we will have a brief meeting on
Thursday,
September 25, 2008
2:00-3:00
at the Journey Hospice office located
at: 101
La Rue France Suite 406 Lafayette, LA
(next to Tokyo Live Restaurant)
***FOOD
WILL BE PROVIDED ***
Some of the opportunities to volunteer are as follows:
-
Organized yard /
home clean ups for patients
-
Office help
-
The December
memorial service
-
Pet care/ walking
for patients
-
Sending cards to
patients
-
Playing music for
patients
-
Direct patient care
– visit patients, talk to them, be their friend
If you are interested in attending this meeting, please RSVP to:
Lindsay DeHart
Volunteer Coordinator
Journey Hospice
(337) 371- 4801
(337) 739-7622
lindsay.dehart@journeyhospice.com
The
RSVP will give me a general idea of how many people will attend and how much
food/ drinks I will need to provide.
If you cannot make the meeting, please contact Lindsay DeHart by phone or email
to get more information. Volunteer applications are also available at PPS
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