Do you have an assignment or want to complete a community service project that is fun for you and produces positive impact for soccer players around the world? One of our favorite features of Peace Passers is the inspiration we get to see from young soccer players who recognize their ability to share the game with others. Peace Passers serves as a platform for soccer players to participate in a fun & meaningful community service experience.
Here are a few examples of service projects to help put soccer gear back into play.
- School assignment
- Girl Scouts/Boy Scouts
- National Honor Society
- Church confirmation
- Bat/Bar Mitzvah service projects
- Host a Peace Passers birthday party & have friends bring soccer balls instead of gifts
- Community service
- School club project (i.e.: Spanish Club)
- Altruism projects
The skills and developmental assets gained by young people who volunteer early in life translate to future benefits for them personally, and for society.
(Young Volunteers: The Benefits of Community Service: Cooperative Extension Fact Sheet 03-23)
- Young people involved in community service are more likely to have a strong work ethic as an adult.
- Youth who volunteer are three times more likely to volunteer as adults.
- Eighty-one percent of Americans who have volunteer experiences when they are young give to charitable organizations as adults.
- Youth who volunteer gain important job skills and experience, while exploring career options.
- Young volunteers expand their social circle and enhance their social awareness.
- Youth feel compassion for people in need; they can do something for a cause in which they believe; they believe that if they help others, others will help them.
- Teens rank volunteering, the environment and eating healthy as top three activities they consider ‘cool’.
- Youth who volunteer just one hour or more a week are 50% less likely to abuse alcohol, cigarettes, become pregnant, or engage other destructive behavior.
Teens say the benefits received from volunteering are: Learning to respect others; learning to be helpful and kind; learning to understand people who are different; developing leadership skills, becoming more patient, and better understanding of citizenship.
“I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” - Mahatma Gandhi
Peace Passers would be happy to support your community service project. Please email Candace @ peacepassersinfo@gmail.com to receive the guidelines.