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Cover page

Foreword

Part One: The Activists

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Part Two: The Teens

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Part Three: The Issues

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Speak.

Evie

Yvette “Evie” Ortiz is not a “goody two shoes”. She doesn’t go around saving kittens from burning trees, and she doesn’t plan on becoming a saint. Evie is simply a normal teenage girl who wants to help others when she can.

 

Evie is a fun, smart, seventeen year old girl that I met in Ms. Good’s fourth period trigonometry class, and until conversation changed to the topic of community service, I had no idea that Evie was so involved in the community.

 

“Everyday except Tuesdays and Thursdays.” She told me when I asked what days she helped out a the Boys and Girls Club, the meetup spot for her main volunteer group, Keystone Club. “We are a volunteer/leadership group and we help out in East Palo Alto, in the community, any community basically, and we help to make the community better.” Evie, aside from the scholarship money she received from the “Youth of the Year” program, gets no form of payment for the volunteer work she does. She simply feels that it’s something that needs to be done, and will just help to make the community a better place for everyone.

 

“My Keystone club went to plant trees and there was this one street in East Palo Alto that was really ugly so we were going to plant trees along the sides along the sidewalks and we were trying to promote other teens to help us, people outside of the club, and you know in East Palo Alto, everyone has to be hard, and you know, “gangsta”, so we were talking to these teens, and I couldn’t really understand all of what they were saying but basically, it was really hard because we had like four people come and help us, and three of them were from Keystone, because all of the people we tried to recruit were like, “Oh that’s a bunch of bull”, you know, “that’s stupid” blah blah blah, but it was really hard, but it was actually really fun, we basically just goofed off while we were planting trees so we had a fun time with it.”

 

Keystone Club is a small group concerned with service to the community, leadership development, education and career development, and social recreation for club members age 13-18. A Keystone Club is sponsored by the center and is affiliated with the National Association of Keystone Clubs.

 

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