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[quote=Anonymous]OP, the issue is that mostly of those foreign mission programs do more harm than good.  Children are affirmatively put into bad situations to create a destination for rich Americans to go so charity work.  And local workers are displaced from jobs.   The truth is that your children are not very helpful yet in most scenarios.

People have already given some good suggestions.  I’ve done several of them with my kids (dc diaper bank, making food for SOME or martha’s table, etc.).  We’ve also done stream cleanups and park cleanup through MoCo parks and rec — DC probably has something similar.  Are any of your children involved in scouts?  There is typically a lot of service opportunities there.  Some of them work to support NGOs abroad that have a specific community-supported goal.   I’ve seen things on Girl Scouts where girls make and collect sanitary packages to send to girls where Sanitary products are scarce, for instance.

I don’t know about DC but in McPS kids are required to do service hours starting in 6th grade, so the middle schools all have lists of opportunities appropriate for the 11 and up crowd.  You could maybe check the North bethesda MS and Pyle websites to see if there are opportunities near you.

When they are older, they can volunteer for babysitting for kids at shelters or PTA meetings at low income schools or other such places—that is a bit help but kids must be 13 to do that. [/quote]

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