Believe in Zero: Down to 18,000!

It's official: we're down to 18,000 preventable deaths per day!

If you sign the pledge to remind the President about his commitment to end preventable child deaths, we will give you ONE HOUR!

Click here: https://secure.unicefusa.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&cmd=display&page=ActionAlertTakenPage&id=229

Once you send the message (we trust you to really do it), comment 'Done' below. On your hour sheet, write, "Signed pledge for ZERO", and ask either Ceridwen, Eugenia, or Chaereen to sign it for you.

Before any unimaginable idea can become real, there has to be someone who believes in it. We believe in ZERO.

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9/23/13 Meeting

Hey everyone! Sorry for the delay; here's a recap of today (okay technically yesterday)'s meeting.

1) If you haven't already, PLEASE make sure to create an account on UNICEF's Action Center. For returning members, just log in the make sure that you are an active member of the Valencia High School UNICEF group. Here's the link to Action Center: http://actioncenter.unicefusa.org. You must sign up on Action Center to be an official member of the club!

2) Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF boxes! On the sign-in sheets today, you were supposed to specify the amount of boxes you want to fill up. Each member wanted at least two (yay)! Remember, you get an hour per filled box, and you can get a maximum of three hours (three boxes). If you were unable to attend the meeting, please message any of the co-presidents to order your boxes. We will be ordering them as a huge batch as soon as possible.

Also, if you have any friends or siblings who want to participate in this fundraiser, feel free to order for them as well! We mentioned this briefly during today's meeting, but we are planning on distributing boxes to local elementary schools. We are yet to receive a confirmation from the Saugus District, but when we do, we'll let you know how that's going to work out!

3) If you are just joining UNICEF, check out our previous posts and explore this website! Welcome to the club ~

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9/16/13 Meeting

IMPORTANT UPDATE: UNICEF MEETINGS WILL NOW BE OFFICIALLY HELD IN MR. MCKEE’S ROOM ONLY! EVERY MONDAY @ LUNCH IN ROOM 516!

Here are the announcements from today's meeting:

1. Congratulations to our newly elected officers!

2. You must sign up on Action Center. This is mandatory for everyone. If you do not sign up, you  will not be an official member of the UNICEF Club. Please make sure to sign up by next week's meeting; we're going to check! Click the following link, or you can click the Action Center link in the header + sidebar. http://actioncenter.unicefusa.org

3. For those of you have a Facebook, please join our Facebook group page: VHS UNICEF Club (PVSA Certified). If you know you have a friend who wasn't at today's meeting, but would like to still join UNICEF, please separately email us your friend's name and email.

4. We will be pre-ordering our "Trick-or-Treat" boxes for our October fundraiser. Please message us or let us know by next meeting a rough estimate of the number of boxes you want. One box = one hour, and one member can earn a maximum of three hours (three boxes). There's no limit to how many boxes you want to fill up, but the limit for hours is three. A reminder for NHS students: you can use these hours for your NHS hour sheets.

5. We want all of our members involved in brainstorming for fundraisers! Restaurants (we mentioned Chipotle today), holiday parties, you name it. If you have any ideas, please share!

6. Lastly, hour sheets MAY be turned in monthly, if you wish to do so. Remember: your semester goal is at least 20 hours, but in order to get the PVSA certification, you need at least 50 hours.

Thank you to everyone who came to the meeting! Have a great rest of the week. Let us know if you have any questions or comments!

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2013-2014 Official Executive Board

Congratulations to the UNICEF officers for the 2013-2014 school year! Thank you to everyone who participated in the interviews. After many discussions among the presiding officers, we have decided to create the Trainee position. Trainees will work with the directors to learn more about being officers for UNICEF to hopefully leave the club in capable hands after the seniors leave. Congratulations once more!

Also, remember that there is a UNICEF meeting tomorrow in Mr. McKee's room (Room 516). We will be talking about registration with the UNICEF Action Center and other important member information. Please be there!

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9/9/13 | First Meeting!

Whoo, thank you so much to everyone who turned up! Here is what we discussed during our first meeting today.

1. What is UNICEF anyways? Click here. Oh, and scroll down to the bottom of the page to watch an amazing video!

2. Our meetings will take place every Monday at lunch. The location will go back and forth between the theater and Mr. McKee's room (Room 516). As you can see, our first meeting took place in the theater; which means, next week's meeting will be in Mr. McKee's room!

If we do have meetings in the theater, absolutely NO eating or drinking is allowed!

3. The 2013-2014 presiding officers are Ceridwen (Ceri) Driskill, Eugenia Lee, and Chaereen Pak. We have three officer positions available this year: Director of Financial Planning and Analysis (A.K.A. treasurer), Director of Communications and Public Relations, and Director of Broadcast and Non-Profit Journalism. Download the application here (it's under Resources). Interviews will be held this Friday (Sept. 13th [ha ha]) after school in Mr. McKee's room. You MUST bring the filled-out application to your interview. More information about the interviews will be announced later on this week.

4. Hours this year will consist of a minimum of twenty hours per semester. Don't worry, it isn't going to be as hard as it sounds. We have some awesome fundraisers coming up and we'll be giving out lots of hours! But, if you are interested in receiving a PVSA certification (for more information, click here and here), the minimum will be fifty hours per semester. To download the hour sheet, click here.

We have also verified with Ms. Henry, that you are able to overlap your UNICEF and CSF/NHS hours. What does this mean? Let's say you volunteered at the public library for three hours. You can use those three for both your UNICEF and CSF/NHS hour sheets; you don't have to get three separate hours for UNICEF and another three hours for CSF/NHS.

5. Our main goal this year is to fundraise $50 per month! LET'S DO THIS!

6. If you have any questions or concerns, contact us through this email: valenciaUNICEF@gmail.com. Or, add us on Facebook and contact us (Eugenia Lee, Ceridwen Driskill, Chaereen Pak).

7. If you did not receive an email from us today (valenciaUNICEF@gmail.com), please email us your address as soon as possible so that we can add you to our mailing list!

We hope to see more members show up as more events and community service opportunities will slowly be introduced! See you all next week.

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VHS Club Day 2013

Introducing: the grand launch of VHS UNICEF Club's official site. Welcome, to all of our new and returning members. Club Day was a complete success! Thank you to everyone who stopped by our table, and a big thanks to Ali Mancia (not pictured) for being the Trick-or-Treat box for the day.

The first meeting of this year is going to be held in the THEATER next MONDAY (September 9th). This month is all about introducing UNICEF to our club members. We will be discussing upcoming fundraisers, volunteer hours, attendance, officer positions, and much more. We will also be taking a group photo for the yearbook.

We strongly encourage you to attend. Hope to see everyone there!

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