virtual SSL opportunities
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Anonymous
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Hi, What are some virtual SSL opportunities? Here is one for Sunday. Are there others?
https://dokindworks.org/project/kindsoup-for-students-make-broccoli-cheese-soup-to-share-with-others/ |
Anonymous
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https://montgomerycountymd.galaxydigital.com/agency/?tag=SSL_APPROVED
Just make sure the opportunity is SSL approved (which is marked in the listings). There are so many things kids can do! |
Anonymous
| Social Service Learning is that - social - not online. It was only online during Covid and should be in person or nothing. |
Anonymous
SSL stands for Student Service Learning. Not social. Some kids need virtual options. |
Anonymous
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This isn't a service learning activity. It's a cooking lesson, with the suggestion that you find a place to donate the food.
Donating food that you prepared at home, can be a service activity. But it should start with figuring out the needs in your community, and going from there. Highly salted soup, that needs to be kept cold, in potentially unsanitary containers (the suggestion to ask your neighbors for used takeout containers is interesting) may not be it. |
Anonymous
Exactly. |
Anonymous
I agree that some kids need virtual service, but this particular activity, that still requires transportation, since the items have to be delivered, is likely not the solution. If you want to cook at home, and want service hours, it probably makes more sense to call your local organizations that distribute prepared food, and ask them what they need. I know, for example, that Shepherd's Table near me in Silver Spring, takes sandwiches. Making sandwiches for them would be a great service project. Or look for truly virtual service, things like online tutoring, or online visiting programs for elders in their home, or something like data entry for a nonprofit. |
Anonymous
+1. Not every kid can have their parents drive them to a service activity. Not every kid was enrolled in summer camp all their lives and can afford to be a “counselor in training” at that same camp for free for SSL hours. |
Anonymous
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I don't know about your local approval process. But if you need virtual volunteering options, try searching with the keywords "citizen science".
https://www.societyforscience.org/research-at-home/citizen-science/ |
Anonymous
| SSL Hours - make sure they are approved - https://montgomerycountymd.galaxydigital.com/need/index?age=&agency_id=&onDate=&distance=&zip=&need_impact_area=&need_init_id=144&cat_id=&meta[]=&meta[]=&meta[]=&q=&allowTeams=&s=1 |