United States Junior Chamber International Area of Opportunity

Annual Meeting 2005Boston, MA, USA

Dalton/Gurley Jaycees, Nebraska

• Membership– January Base-32 (ACS-30) / Chapter Division-III

• Community– Dalton & Gurley combined-554 / Population

Division-1– Type-Rural

• Chapter founded in 1998

• Project– Iraqi Children’s School/Health Kits– International Involvement Commission

Iraqi Children’s School/Health Kits• Primary Purpose: The Dalton/Gurley Jaycees coordinated,

assembled, packed and mailed school and health kits to children living in Iraq.

• Brief Description: In August of 2004, Lutheran Hour Ministries asked for help in assembling school and health kits for children in Iraq. Since these kits were mailed directly to Chaplains serving in Iraq, they were hand-delivered to children in need in a timely manner. Our chapter funded mailing the kits, and other organizations in our communities contributed the items needed to make the kits. We asked Leyton High School students and Salem Lutheran Women’s Missionary League members to collect items, and we paid to send the assembled kits.

• Dates Run: August 30-September 30, 2004• Project Chairperson: Christy George

– Project Committee Members: Jodi Smith, Paula Brown, Nicki Rushman, and Rob Rushman.

Iraqi School/Health Kits: Impact

• Number of Jaycees Involved: 5-committee, 33-made funds available

• Number of non-Jaycees Involved: 212• Number of Community Organizations Involved: 4• Amount of money raised: $0• Total Project budget: $100.00• Man hours: 102 hours• Number of new members recruited: 0

Overall, 107 children in Iraq received new school or health kits that contained items they did not have access to in their own country.

Iraqi School/Health Kits: Areas of Impact• Individual: Each kit packer felt a great accomplishment

as he/she realized what this project would do to help many Iraqi children with basic needs.

• Chapter: Coordinating and sending these kits gave our chapter the key role in making this project happen, while also allowing us to share the financial burden. We liked knowing kits were being sent directly to active Chaplains in the military who were personally distributing them.

• Community: Community participants ranged in age from 13-75, and included many Salem Lutheran Church members, our high school student body of 100, and our membership of 33.

• International: Although children in Iraq face uncertain times, they have support from American people. Our service men and women can also feel the love and support from America as they provide genuine concern for the Iraqi people and help provide them basic survival items.

Iraqi School/Health Kits: SubstantiationJaycee

Member Paula

Brown, far left,

standing with Linda

Zuehlsdorf -FCCLA

advisor, far right, and

Leyton High school

students.

Iraqi School/Health Kits: Substantiation

Left: Project Chair Christy George, right, stands with Salem LWML member, Ann Rushman, left, and son, D. J.

Above: Assembled Health Kits from Salem L.W.M.L.

Iraqi School/Health Kits: Recommendations• Our chapter recommends we look for similar

projects in the future.• We would ask for entire kits to be donated instead

of individual items.• Limits on the number of kits collected should be

set, so costs are more concrete.• More organizations could be notified to help collect

items or send kits.• Boxes with lids (paper boxes) worked best to pack,

and should be collected early in the project.• Training for school class sponsors will help them

oversee the student collecting and assembling of kits.

• Press releases should go out early in the project.

Thank you!

• This project won:– 2nd place, International Involvement

Commission, Chapter Division III

• Any questions?

United States Junior Chamber InternationalArea of Opportunity

Annual Meeting 2005Boston, MA, USA

Elgin, Illinois

• Membership– January Base 10 / Chapter Division I

• Community– 96,000 / Population Division 7– Suburban

• Chapter founded in 1946

• Project– BAPS Temple Visitation– International Involvement Commission

BAPS Temple Visitation

• Primary Purpose – to increase our involvement with and awareness of different religious groups in the Fox Valley area.

• Brief Description – The chapter wanted a chance to visit a new Temple that was built in neighboring community Bartlett, IL - BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir. It was our hope that we would be able to tour the facility, gain facts and information to form future ideas on how we can be united together. Elgin is one of the most cultural cities outside of Chicago with 22-33% being of the Asian Middle Eastern Culture. This was one step closer to finding out more how we can work together.

• Date Run – November 1, 2005.

• Project Chairperson – Wendy Covich– Project committee members – Kim Parsons– Supervising Chapter Officer – Kim Parsons – President, 2004

BAPS Temple Visitation: Impact

• Number of Jaycees Involved: 4• Number of non-Jaycees Involved: 6• Number of Community Organizations Involved: 1• Amount of money raised: $0• Total Project budget: $4.09• Man hours: 30 hours• Number of new members recruited: 1• Impact

– Individual – Learned about the oldest practiced religion in the world a well as the magnificent architecture design and its meaning. Many attendees say they felt at peace in the temple and say their experience was awesome!

– Chapter – Unifying together and making an offering in the Jaycee name brought the chapter closer together. The chapter can discuss future impact projects to try and include all culture in the Elgin area.

– Community – Since the community of Elgin is 22-33% Middle Eastern or Asian, the chapter now has a better sense of trying to obtain more cultural projects.

BAPS Temple Visitation: Substantiation

BAPS Temple Visitation: Recommendations

• This place is large. It is recommended that everyone involved either car pools together, or meets in a specified location so everyone can enter together.

• Plan for a two hour visitation. The tour generally takes an hour or so, but the worship is 15 minutes and one might want to allow extra time for question and answers.

• WEAR CLEAN SOCKS. Since this culture requires you to take off your shoes before entering the Temple, having clean socks is a must. The floors are heated.

• Bring fruit as an offering. They accept money, but fruit is considered more sacred.

Thank you!

• This project won:– 1st place, International Involvement

Commission, Chapter Division I

• Any questions?