Project Ideas

IDEAS FOR YOUTH GROUP SERVICE PROJECTS

Paint a room or wall in an elderly home
Help cook/serve meals at an elderly home
Organize a party or recreational event for the residents of an elderly home (games, songs, skits, etc…)
Raise money to purchase wheelchairs and other equipment for an elderly home
Bring plants to an elderly home - offer to take care of them
Draw/paint pictures to decorate the walls of an elderly home/hospital
Create toiletry kits for senior citizens
Make greeting cards for a special holiday (Mothers/Fathers’ Day, New Year’s Day, a religious holiday, etc.) and give them to individuals at an elderly home

Clean up an empty lot
Collect materials that could be recycled from people’s homes
Organize a cleanup for a river, street, neighborhood, beach, or park
Study local environmental problems and construct a plan to help solve one of them
Implement a recycling program for a school, building, or neighborhood
Implement a project to reduce the amount of waste generated (like banning or reducing the use of single-use plastics in your school, institution or community)
Implement a project to collect the water from the ACs in your school, institution or community and make good use of it (watering plants, etc.)
Implement a composting project for your school, institution or community

Evaluate the accessibility of the sidewalks or buildings in your community and make or advocate for changes to improve accessibility.
Read books and record them on tape for the visually impaired
Offer to take visually impaired individuals of an institution for the blind to the cinema or to a play and help them understand what is happening
Hold a local sports day for those with special needs
Hold a non-competitive sports day bringing those with and without special needs together
Present a play/puppet show/ skit/dance with, for, or about those with special needs

Organize or participate in programs concerned with changing policy and social behavior regarding:

Paint murals/beautify walls on the street
Plant and tend flowers on the street
Plant and tend a vegetable garden and donate the produce to an institution in need
Make a playground in a park

Organize an after-school program to provide tutoring and other activities
Organize a used book sale and donate the money to an institution in need
Collect new and used books to give to a hospital, orphanage, school, library, or refugee center

Take a group of children in need (orphans, poor, etc,) to an animal shelter or other activity place
Bring plants to an orphanage and offer to take care of them or teach the children how to take care of them
Read books to children in an orphanage or hospital
Organize activities at an orphanage (games, songs, skits, etc…)
Have a storytelling session for children at the local public library
Take a group of children in need to the public library for a day of activities
Paint an empty wall with the children in an orphanage
Help cook/serve meals at an orphanage
Write letters to children at an orphanage or hospital
Organize an after-school activity to help younger students do their homework and have extra classes
Draw/paint pictures to decorate the walls of an orphanage
Collect clothes for children in need
Make greeting cards for a special holiday (New Year’s Day, a religious holiday, etc.) and give them to children at an orphanage or hospital
Create a friendship program between a school class and a group of children at an orphanage.

Organize a
- Canned food drive
- Furniture drive
- Clothes drive
- Toy drive for children and repair/paint the toys if needed
Set up a recycling drive or recycling center
Organize the collection of posters to decorate a school or orphanage or elderly home

Collect new and used books for a public or school library
Organize a used book sale and donate the money to an institution in need
Hold a storytelling session for children at a library
Take a group of orphans or others on a fieldtrip to a local library
Adopt a children’s section of a library (decorate it, add books, and comfortable furniture, etc.)
Help organize or cover books
Set up a long-term volunteer program at a local library (to shelve, register books, have reading sessions, themes, summer reading programs, etc…)
If no public library exists in the community, begin a campaign to establish a library and make sure it includes a children’s section
Develop a tutoring program at a public library
Develop a program to teach literacy and love of reading at a public library
Build a Little Free Library for the free exchange of books

For schools: Have your service project be connected to the curriculum of any class subject (this is called “service-learning”), then write an article about the experience
Develop a play/skit/puppet show about a special cause and perform it for others
Organize a discussion/lecture/about drug and alcohol abuse or some other social issue
Engage in some type of fundraiser for an institution
Develop a program to help with office work for an organization
Hold an introductory computer session for parents/adults or teach them how to use Facebook, Twitter, or other social media.
Organize a bike-a-thon (or one for tricycles, roller blades, scooters, etc.) as a fundraiser for some good cause
Research local history and publish a guide about a historical site in your community/town
Spend a day serving the needs of prisoners at a prison or facility for delinquent youth

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