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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