(HS EXTRACURRICULARS) Would anyone be willing to give advice?

[Anonymous]

So, lately I’ve been thinking about starting a club at school. I want to name it “R. O. L. E. S.” as in everyone has or plays a role in someone else’s life. It stands for “Roles Of Love, Empathy, and Service”.

The premise is that we do acts of service and kindness for communities that really need that love or extra support. It will also be a way for students to gain community service hours.

Yes, I want to build a strong community within the club, but I also want everyone to feel like they don’t have to interact with other people they don’t know ALL of the time. I want to be able to provide activities that don’t need people to interact with other people directly and have them still get community service/activism hours for it.

My vision is that there’ll be different layers to it, or two different groups working on projects. What I want to do is: have people who don’t want to interact with others (like at fairs or other school events) do all of the background or set up work. Those who don’t mind taking to others can sign up to speak with others. Anyone is open and welcomed to do both or just one. This way, everyone can participate in any way they’d like, get hours, and feel comfortable doing it.

I’m posting this to ask if anyone thinks it’s a good idea to do this. I’m not sure if there’s a club similar to this in my school, so it’s definitely just an idea for now.

Also, if it does happen to be a good idea, does anyone have any ideas as to which programs/communities we could reach out to in order to help?

I want to do acts of kindness in this club. For example, we could have a day where we hand out roses to people whose names got written down by a friend who asked us to give it to that person. Maybe, we could write cards to the elderly. We could also help suicide prevention hotlines (though I don’t know we’d get to that point of permission).

If anyone has ANY ideas for as to what we could do, please let me know.

I’m open to any feedback. Thank you for reading.

You should do it! It’s a good idea (if you’d like, please comment why)

You shouldn’t do it. No one’s gonna sign up (please comment why you think so)

You should do it, but it needs some work (please give advice)

[wynning]

I think it's a great idea. Also good on you for asking anonymously considering your age and the demographics here.

The community aspect of it is really cool. I do a lot of volunteering myself and I wished we could've had a club like this at my school!

I think you could reach out to volunteer groups that are active in your community to help out as a group. They'd really appreciate the extra hands especially a whole bunch of ye. You could run donation campaigns (doesn't have to be money - could be clothes, stuff you don't use anymore etc.), fundraisers with some kind of event like a marathon or a raffle with fun prizes or even going out and about like involving the elderly and spending time with them.
You could also organize workshops for kids for painting, book reading and anything else.

Just some ideas off of the top of my head. Fair play for taking the initiative to come up with this! You've got some great stuff already thought about here.

[Asker]

Haha, thank you! I made this club because I also have a lot of needs of my own being an introvert who is very involved and all. The other part was the compassion I have and want to show for others. Thank you for your ideas!

[Simslover92]

It's definitely a good idea. I like the name and what it stands for. You could distribute food to homeless shelters. Donate old toys or clothes.

[Asker]

That’s a good idea! Thank you

[Simslover92]

You're welcome! Good luck!