[2008]

1. On January 17 Josefina Oh, Ana Cristina Figueroa and Song Yie Kim visited the cancer hospital, spent time with the kids and delivered the crayons and coloring books to them.

2. January 24^th, 2008 was our first meeting of 2^nd semester.

3. We decided that our main community service will be with the orphanage “San Jerónimo Emiliani”

4. On February 9 we went for the first time to the orphanage “San Jeronimo Emiliani” where we spent the morning with 35 boys between 6 and 12 years old.  We divided them in 3 groups and rotate them through the different activities.  We then give them Hotdogs and cookies for lunch.  We also gave them a donation of detergent and milk for the orphanage.

5. We had a spring bake sale on March 13.

6. We participated on the Friendship Fair with the game “Balloon Splash”.  With this activity we raised Q1400.00.  We also received a donation from 2^nd grade of their Friendship Fair money (Q1400.00) which was used entirely to buy donations for the orphanage “San Jeronimo Emiliani” (detergent, milk, oil and cereal).

7. Second visit to the orphanage “San Jeronimo Emiliani”.  We deliver the donations and again, divided them in 3 groups and rotate them through the different activities.  We then give them pizza and apples for lunch.    

8. On May 15 we choose our next year officers after listening to their speeches.

9. On May 22 we celebrated our end of year good bye party for 9^th graders leaving NJHS and for members leaving school.  We shared food and the new officers gave each leaving member a bag of candy and a card.

[2007]

1. On September 25, 2007, New members where inducted in our Induction Ceremony.

2. On October 11, 2007 we held our first formal meeting with all the NJHS members.

3. Our first fundraiser was the “Winter Sale” which took place on November 7^th, 2007. We sold hot chocolate with marshmallows, cookies, brownies, dumplings etc. It was very successful!

4. The hot chocolate left from “Winter Sale”, was sold to the teachers.

5. On November 10, 2007 must of us participate in “Leadership Saturday”.

6. On November 29, we started collecting newspaper magazines for a public school in “El Milagro”.  What we collected was delivered in January 2008.

7. On November 29, we also started collecting crayons and coloring books for a children cancer hospital. 

8. On December 6, 2007, as part of appreciation activities for teachers, we gave each of them a card and a bag of hot cocoa.

9. Most of the NJHS members helped the NHS group grapping the Christmas Baskets for maintenance workers.

10. We decided to make groups.  Each 3-4 members organized to buy Christmas presents for one orphan from la “Casa de Mama Juana”.  We where able to buy presents for 5 orphans.

11. We had a Christmas Party in December, which was our last meeting. We brought food to share.

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• Since we did not have a goodbye party for 2006, we decided to have a welcome party on the 18 of January. With the money we collected on our bake sale we bought pizza. In addition, each of the members brought snacks, beverages and desserts to share.
• We are planning our community service for this second semester: A play day with Safe Passage students that will come to Maya on March the 3rd.
• We are planning and organizing our Friendship fair activity (March 24).
• On Feburary 16, Danica and Maria Andrea went to Hospital Roosevelt to donate diapers, Incaparina, tooth paste and toilet paper that NJHS collected to help the “Damas Voluntarias” that have an ongoing helping program in this hospital.
• On March 3, we had our community service day, which we did with the seniors. For this activity day, 45 students of Safe Passage came to spend the morning at Maya. They had the chance to play in the fields, learn about some computer programs and receive a health class specifically about Hygiene. During the day snack where provided and lunch was shared with them at the end of the morning. Reflections upon the day showed that some of our strong points where organization and logistics as it was having so many Maya students to participate in the activity, especially with so many SP kids coming. Communication between the groups involved was a challenge. In general it was a great day for everyone involved!
• On March 24, we have our traditional Friendship Fair. We decided to participate by doing "pinta caritas" and bringing a "saltarin inflable”. Half the profits go to help our great PTA.

• On September 5, we held out first meeting with all NJHS members.
• Our first fundraiser was named again "The Winter Bake Sale". It was held on November 29. We sold hot chocolate, sushi, brownies, marshmallows, candy, and dumplings.
• We decided to support Safe Passage, the school wide community service initiative, by doing a backpack drive. The purpose was to collect money to help SP buy backpacks for the new school year for the more than 500 students that they support. Each student in Colegio Maya was given an envelope with a letter, where we asked for a donation of a suggested amount of 100 Q to buy backpacks. The envelope also contained a small paper backpack that each student painted and used to decorate a Christmas tree. Each day from December 4 to 13 we had the NJHS members helping out to put the backpacks on the tree.
• We were able to collect over Q20,000 for backpacks!
• NJHS members helped out packing the Christmas baskets for the workers at Colegio Maya in December 6, 2006.

• On September 16, 2005, we held our first formal meeting with all the NJHS members.

• Our first fundraiser was the "Winter Sale" which took place on November 4th, 2005. We sold hot chocolate with marshmallows, cookies, brownies, heating bags and small doughnuts. The result was Q.1190

• The hot chocolate left from "Winter Sale", was sold to the teachers.
  

• NJHS bought 2 backpacks to contribute to the school end of year project.
  

• Most of ninth graders in NJHS helped the NHS group grapping the Christmas Baskets for maintenance workers on December 6th, 2005.
  

• We had counted the can-pull tab that where collected last year, and Mrs. Gnata with 3 members deliver them to Hospital Roosevelt. Based on this visit, NJHS decided to keep on gathering donations of diapers, toilet paper, atoll, plastic cups, cookies and toothpaste to help the work the voluntary ladies do at the Hospital.
  

• We decided that our main community service will be with Safe Passage students.
  

• We had a Christmas Party in December, which was our last meeting. We did Secret Santa and brought food to share.