.::. ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER CLUB .::.
Our mission is to raise our own ethnic awareness while forming strong bonds among Asian Pacific Islanders while also welcoming the community.
Our objectives are to learn about different Asian Pacific American cultures, be involve in community services and most of all the three Fs: having FUN, making FRIENDS, and eating FOOD.
The last three months of hunting for community services that our club could participate in, paid off last Friday, when our club got ask to participate in two community outreach opportunities. The first one was delivering toys for the kids at the Child Haven center, located in Broadway, Downtown Seattle. The second one was singing Christmas carols to the senior folks at the FOSS Home located in Greenwood, Seattle.
We learned a lot by just delivering toys at the Child Haven center, we were toured around their facility to see the kids, ages 0 mos to 5 years old, play in their own assigned rooms. We learned that these kids came from broken homes, from parents who were reeling from drug addiction or alcohol addiction and from orphanages. We learned that the center brought these kids to their facility so that they could provide them with therapeutic and emotional needs that are not met by their caregivers at home. Too bad we couldn't play with the kids, the guide says that they didn't want to break the kids' routine schedule.
We had so much fun singing to the folks at FOSS home. It really felt good to serve these senior folks some entertainment that they deserve. And it really boosted our Christmas spirit high up in the air. Although we didn't practice singing the Christmas songs that much, we came through and had fun. Good times.
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