Awards for the third year focus on community service. By completing a community service activity, the Brave/Princess receives one-of-five patches that together form a totem pole. To earn the wings of the totem pole, your tribe must:
- Take an overnight camping trip
- Take a four-mile hike
These can be earned on the same trip.
Community service awards can be earned for participation in any of the service projects suggested below.
>> You may participate in others. <<
An Eagle Claw is awarded to a Brave/Princess who earns all their feathers and totem pole pieces for all three years. The eagle claw award winners are recognized during the dinner at the third year Spring Outing.
SUGGESTED COMMUNITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES
- Participate in the YMCA's annual fundraising drive, "We Build People"
- Participate in a fundraising walkathon, such as "Walk to Cure Diabetes"
- Participate in a community clean-up of some kind (other than the Park Clean-Up Day)
- Visit a relative/family friend in a retirement community. Taking festive holiday decorations made by the tribe is also a good idea.
- Provide a service for a "home-bound" person (rake leaves, help make and take dinner, run an errand, etc.)
- Collect canned goods for a food bank or homeless shelter
- Participate in a holiday service project (Angel Tree, Operation Christmas Child, etc.)
- Father/child teach a Sunday School class
- Write a letter of thanks to a service person overseas
- Participate in Operation Toy Box (a charity run by Meredith College)
- Visit the Raleigh Rescue Mission using your wampum to purchase items to donate