The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, October 4, 1991 Page: 6 of 16
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6 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1991 THE RICE THRESHER
RSVP gives students opportunity to help Houston community
Crisis Work
Casa Juan Diego—temporary
residence that offers Central Ameri-
can refugees food, shelter, counsel-
ing, travel arrangements, medical
treatment, and employment services.
RSVP teaches English language in-
struction for residents on Sundays.
Activity: Painting, yardwork, and
general upkeep work. Time: 10-2.
limit 20.
YMCA Refugee Assistance
Program—YMCA International
Services strives to ease the resettle-
ment of new refugees and immi-
grants through job placement, ESL
classes, and counseling among other
services.
Activity: Briefintroductiontothe
agency, then sorting with refugee
youth, donations of clothes, furni-
ture, toys, etc. phis general clean-up.
Time: 9-3. Limit 10.
Star of Hope—a transitional liv-
ing center for families that takes
people from shelters and returns
them into society within a year. Only
requirement is that participants are
drug free. Unlike shelters, families
are kept together.
Activity: Tour and description of
program, then family literacy.
Reading with children and presen-
tation of new books, then gardening
and general upkeep work. Time: 10-
3:30. Limit 25.
Magnificat Houses, Inc.—a
cluster of halfway houses providing
transitional living and twelve step
counseling for families and indi-
viduals.
Activity: Participants will orga-
nize and play games with children
ages 1-11, read aloud from children's
books, sort and distribute clothing,
do painting and repair work at two
new facilities, and help prepare the
noonday meal. Time: 10-1:30. Limit
40.
Mental Disabilities
Center for the Retarded, Inc.—
provides direct service programs to
mentally retarded persons residing
in Harris County.
Activity: Play softball and bingo
with residents. Includes overview of
the agency. Time: 1:30-4. Limit 15.
Menta] Health & Mental Re-
tardation Authority—provides an
array of evaluative treatment and
supportive services for mentally ill
and mentally retarded persons in
Harris County.
Activity: Rollerskating and a
movie with adult and teenage partici-
pants. Time: 9-5. Limit 10.
Physical Disabilities
lighthouse of Houston—of-
fers a full range of programs to serve
individuals who are blind or visually
impaired; these programs include
vocational and living skills training,
social services and counseling, job
placement, etc.
Activity One: Brief introduction
and slide show on legal blindness,
discussion with blind volunteers, role
playing and sighted guide training.
Time: 9-12:30. No limit
Activity Two: Refurbishing of the
Lighthouse including: planting flow-
ers in the flower bed; painting exte-
rior doors with bright colors; sweep-
ing and striping the industrial area
with tactile paint; and striping
the parking lot Time: 9-3.
limit 45.
Houston School for Deaf
Children —nonprofit day
school established in 1947 of-
fering classes to more than 70
students with a teaching and
support staff of over 20.
Activity: Orientation and
tour of facilities. Time: 102.
limit 30.
Relief Hssistance
St. Paul's Church Food
Pantry—distributes sack
lunches and groceries to the
hungry at St Paul's Method-
ist Church. Clients are inter-
viewed to determine need.
Activity. Sorting and box-
ing food. Time: 102. Limit
15.
Houston Food Bank—
food distribution center for
garden plots around Houston. Tune:
9-12 & 1-4. Limit 40.
Loaves and Fishes Soup
Kitchen—soup kitchen located on
the east side of downtown that serves
450 lunches daily to homeless Hous-
tonians.
Activity: Serve meals. Time: 11:30-
1:30. Limit 10.
S.E.A.R.C.H.—a total resource
center for homeless people. A day
shelter, S.E.ARC.H. offers meals,
laundry, showers, child care, emer-
Rice O.U.T.Reach—tutors
Jackson Middle School students on
the Rice campus on one afternoon a
week in the Wiess commons. Jack-
son is located on Houston's East End.
Activity: Jackson and Rice stu-
dents will make Halloween masks
and door decorations for patients at
Texas Children's Hospital. Tune 9-
12. No limit
Children's Museum—provides
children ages 3-12 the opportunity to
learn about the world around them
with a variety of hands-on exhibits.
Activity One: Pumpkin
decorating with the children.
Two shifts: 10-11 & 11-12.
Limit 10 per shift
Activity Two: Face paint-
ing with kids. Time: 1-3.
Limit 5.
Juvenile Court Volun-
teers—provides positive role
models and tutoring for
youths aged 10-17 who must
stay in the Juvenile Deten-
tion Center. Participants
must be 21 years old.
Activity. Orientation & in-
troduction to the juvenile jus-
tice system. Tour of the juve-
nile detention center. Time:
9:30-12. Limit 20.
Health
Omega House—a resi-
dential hospice for homeless,
terminal-phase AIDS pa-
tients, offers only palliative
medical care designed to in-
Outreach Day 1991
large volume food donations that
distributes food to local programs for
the needy.
Activity: Sorting and boxing food.
Time: 8-12:30. Limit 40.
Home Repair for the Elderly—
Private Sector Initiatives, Inc. orga-
nizes volunteers to paint and repair
homes owned by low-income elderly
people in Houston. In six years they
have repaired over 700 homes. Since
1987, Rice volunteers have repaired
14 homes.
Activity: Painting and repairing
two homes. Tune: 8-12. limit 70.
Interfaith Hunger Coalition,
Community Gardens—the Coali-
tion addresses hunger and hunger-
related issues through direct service,
education and advocacy. Community
Gardens assist neighborhoods, con-
gregations, or civic groups to develop
garden projects that provide fresh
vegetables for their own use and food
pantries.
Activity. Work in one of three
gency financial aid, job training and
counseling, education, and medical
care.
Activity: Overview of facilities and
tour. Time: 10-11:30. Limit 15.
Human Resources Develop-
ment Foundation—operated in part
by Rice Professor Joe Hightower,
HRDF provides free housing to
medically indigent families who come
to Houston for treatment in the
Medical Center.
Activity: Mow lawn, prune trees,
trim hedges, clean gutters, and bake
bread for the residents. Time: 9-2.
Limit' 12.
Vouth
Operation Success—acts as a
model of social, athletic and academic
excellence for Jack Yates High
School. Students tutor, advise and
coordinate.
Activity: Bring students to Rice
for variety of activities. Time: 1-4.
Limit 20.
crease the patient's comfort and well-
being.
Activity: Tour of the center and
overview of volunteer responsibili-
ties. Tune: 9-11. Limit 10.
Texas Children's Hospital—
provides a full range of basic and
specialized services to children, ado-
lescents and young adults.
Activity: Make Halloween deco-
rations with patients and decorate
the lobby. Time: 9:30-2. Limit 30.
Hermann Hospital—Hermann
was the first hospital in the Texas
Medical Center, established in 1925.
Activity: Dress in Halloween cos-
tumes, visit with the children, and
make masks with pediatrics patients.
Time: 9:30-12. Limit 15.
Rice CPR Task Force—pro-
vides American Heart Association
certified Adult CPR training on cam
pus by certified instructors from Rice.
Activity: CPRTraining. Time: 10-
2:30. Limit 60.
M.D. Anderson Cancer Cen-
ter—volunteers provide a wide spec-
trum of services to cancer patients.
Activity: Dress in Halloween cos-
tumes and pass out candy to young
patients. Time: 10-1. Limit 10.
environment
*Trees for Houston, Tree
Planting—trees make a significant
difference in the quality of city life,
helping to cool and clean the air and
aesthetically enhancing surround-
ings. TFH is dedicated to fostering
orderly planting of trees along both
residential and commercial streets.
Activity: Plant approximately 15
trees on San Jacinto, plus weed
whacking, pruning and trash pick-
up. Time: 9-12:30. Limit 35.
Rice Recycling and Recovery—
collects glass, aluminum cans, news-
paper, computer and copier paper
from the eight colleges and locations
around campus where students
generate recyclable materials.
Activity: Sorting recyclables,
building and painting bins, and tak-
ing sorted materials to recycling
centers. Two shifts: 9-12 & 1-4. Limit
20 per shift
Hnlmals
* Pet Patrol—matches a volun-
teer with a person unable to care for
his/her pet due to a debilitating ill-
ness such as AIDS. Walking, bathing,
vet visits, and general pet care are
the main volunteer responsibilities.
Activity: Training session for new
volunteers. Time: 1012. No limit
* SPCA—Houston's largest and
oldest private an&nal welfare organi-
zation. 40,000 animals are sheltered
each year, and others receive help
through the Injured Animal Rescue
Service, Cruelty Investigations and
Advocacy programs.
Activity: Volunteer training ses-
sion. Time: 10-1. Limit 8.
Education
* Rice Adult Literacy Program/
ESL, Classroom Tutoring—
500,000 Houstonians (nearly 30 mil-
lion adults in the U.S.) cannot read
well enough to pass high school. Find
out how you can combat illiteracy
through a variety ofprograms offered
by the RSVP Literacy Office.
Activity: Introduction to and dis-
cussion of illiteracy plus orientation
for English as a Second Language
instruction. The group will then tu-
tor ESL students in the afternoon.
Time: 9:30-3:30. Limit 10.
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New programs expand opportunities
by Eric Carmichael
The Rice Student Volunteer Pro-
gram will hold its annual Outreach
Day on Saturday, October 19. All
interested students, faculty, and staff
are invited to participate.
The event, coordinated by Han-
szen junior Bobby Kapur, isdesigned
to give participants a taste of com
munity service. "Often people are
•hesitant to become involved in com
munity service, because they think
they're the only ones interested.
Outreach Day lets people realize
they're not alone," said Kapur.
Students can spend the day taking
part in any of 30 different volunteer
activities, both on- and off-campus.
Some projects are hands-on experi-
ences, while others are orientations,
acquainting participants with a vol-
unteer group's day-to day activities,
and showing them how they can
contribute. In the past, popular
projects have included running dem-
onstrations at the Children's Mu-
seum, preparing and serving food at
the Loaves and Fishes Soup Kitchen,
and repairing homes for the elderly.
Changes this year include the
addition of several programs. Among
the new volunteer groups repre-
sented are Trees for Houston, Pet
Patrol, The Society for the Preven-
tion of Cruelty to Animals, and Star of
Hope.
Another addition is a series of
lectures to be held in the week before
Outreach Day. The speakers, who
are yet to be arranged, will discuss
their volunteer experiences, and try
"to put volunteering into a broader
context—to show that service does
not exist in a vacuum," according to
RSVP Director Lucy Martin.
Also, after each project ends, ac-
tivity coordinators will ask partici-
pants to spend about 15 minutes
talking about how they felt the project
went
"We want to make sure that stu-
dents know they're not the only ones
who enjoyed themselves. Hopefully
they'll be more encouraged to con-
tinue volunteering if they know
they're not isolated in their experi-
ence," said Kapur.
Tom Chojnacki, a senior at Wiess,
took part in last year's Outreach Day,
working on the Habitat for Humanity
project which builds housing for low-
income people."I strongly encourage
people to [participate]. Until you do
it you don't realize how much need
there is, or how rewarding it ca?i be."
Students can sign up through
Friday, October 11 at the RSVPtables,
which are located outside Fondren
Library, in the RMC, and in each
college commons.
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Zitterkopf, Ann & Howe, Harlan. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, October 4, 1991, newspaper, October 4, 1991; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245792/m1/6/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.