Z Club

Z Club is sponsored by the Zonta Club of Porterville and is advised by an onsite teacher from the school where it is active as well as Zontians appointed by the Zonta Club to help oversee activities. 

The purpose of the club shall be:

• To serve the school in which it is affiliated

• To serve the community

• To encourage leadership qualities in students

• To promote fellowship and better understanding among people of the world

Activities for 2022-2023:

Ronald McDonald House Drive: 

• Z Club members donated over $2000.00 in cash, diapers, formula, toiletries, and household supplies to help the parents of sick children if Valley Children's Hospital.

The Lisa Project:  

• Over 40 Z Club members volunteered to help set up, present, work this display that was set up on campus for 3 days to help educate about the realities of child abuse.  Students took an active role in educating participatants that went through the interactive display.

Crisis Center Domestic Violence Vigil:   

• Z Club members showed up early and passed out pamphlets, candles, and worked to help support the presentations given by abuse victims and their families.

City of Porterville Fall Clean Up Day:  

• Z Club members worked on a Saturday with the women of Zonta chaperoning to clean up parts of the city.  They picked up trash, cleaned out gutters, and weeded sidewalks and planters along the streets.

Porterville Women's Shelter Childrens Halloween Party:  

• Though cancelled due to a COVID outbreak, our students donated 30 "Goodie Boxes" filled with toys, candy, coloring supplies, and spent their lunch hours decorating the boxes to give to all the children at the shelter & transitional housing.

Porterville Christmas Parade entry "Zonta Says No":

• Z Club members walk with the women of Zonta in the Porterville Christmas Parade with signs and advocate for an end to domestic violence and have educational materials available. 

City of Porterville Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony:

• Z Club officers work the ceremony with the mayor and council of Porterville by setting up chairs, helping with distribution of materials and clean up.  

Sponsor Child from Children's International "Martin:

• Z Club members donate money as they can to help provide a little boy from Zaire, Africa through Children's International.  The money provides clothing, food, and some activities for children in war-torn and improvised countries.  We communicate by letters over the website and kids have helped support him for several years.  This is an ongoing project and our second child in 17 years.  Nathan, our first  graduated out of the program and we adopted Martin.

Porterville Women's Shelter Valentine's Day Children's Party:

• Though cancelled at the very last minute due to a COVID outbreak, our students donated 30 "Goodie Boxes" filled with toys, candy, coloring supplies, and spent their lunch hours decorating the boxes to give to all the children at the shelter & transitional housing.

• A "normal" shelter party involved meeting at a secure location between 5-8 pm on a weeknight close to the holiday we are celebrating.(typically a church annex building) Approximately 20 students work the party but it takes the entire club to supply the decor, snacks, and goodies for them when they leave. At the party are women from Zonta, reps from the shelter, myself, and our  kids.  They bring the kids and moms to the location in groups by van or car. Z Club arrives early and decorates the room and set up stations.  Depending on the season things can change but normally it has face painting, coloring and card making, cupcake and cookie decorating, cornhole, bingo, and often musical chairs or red light-green light depending on the ages and music is playing. 

City of Porterville Clean Up Day:

• Z Club members worked on a Saturday with the women of Zonta chaperoning to clean up parts of the city.  They picked up trash, cleaned out gutters, and weeded sidewalks and planters along the streets.