SERVICE

The various options for service choices are almost limitless, a realisation that can be simultaneously beneficial and overwhelming. You can provide service to the school community, the local community, or the international community.

Keep in mind that one of your projects must be global in nature and will likely involve some type of service. This aspect of CAS may be the single most important one to your college applications, as universities are extremely interested in how well you reach out in the community in which you live as a predictor of your potential value to theirs in the future.

Examples of Service:

• Food donations and delivery
• Clothing, stuffed animal, school supply or book drives
• Setting up for and participating in school-related program, orientations, and assemblies
• Providing free tutoring to primary or secondary school students
• Volunteering on nursing homes
• Terre des Hommes annual walk
• Cleaning up or planting flowers at a local park
• Volunteering at any number of schools for after-school fairs, projects, and activities
• Coaching younger athletes
• Organizing a series of food bank volunteering opportunities for students
• Organizing an NGO event
• Volunteering at evening events
• Volunteering at a local animal shelter
• Volunteering at a soup kitchen
• Organizing Christmas baskets for the needy
• Teaching a musical instrument or foreign language to younger children
• Taking a CPR class and becoming certified
• Participating in an action event to raise money for a cause
• Working with or for an international charity.

Not CAS Service:

• Any service or community activitiy that is already part of your program
• Any activity for which you are paid
• Doing simple, repetitive work such as putting books back on shelves
• Work that is not providing a service to those in need
• Informally helping a friend with homework
• Asking for donations without doing something
• Religion or politics related service