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About Us
County Impact Statements - Columbia County
Community Service A Vital Part of 4-H
Four-H stands for head, heart, hands, and health. Four-H strives to stimulate
members growth in all four areas. Community service directly involves the heart
and the hands. By participating in community service activities, the 4-H’er
learns that they have a personal responsibility to care about others and that
they have the power to change situations through their actions.
Community service is carried out as county projects that every club
participates in and as individual club projects that only that club participates
in.
On the county level clubs were encouraged to make comfort kits for the Red
Cross. The comfort kits are distributed by the Red Cross to persons who have
experienced tragedies such as tornadoes or house fires. These comfort kits
consist of personal hygiene items such as shaving cream and razor, soap,
toothpaste and brush, deodorant, mouthwash, and similar items. Columbia County
4-H members put together 104 comfort kits. This was the second highest total
among 4-H programs in the 20 county Southwest District of the State.
The County Teen Leader Club donated over $350 of school supplies to the 6
public school systems in the county. These supplies are distributed at the
discretion of school administrators to students who lack basic supplies. The
school supplies included looseleaf paper, notebooks, pencils, rulers, scissors,
crayons, erasers, folders, and glue.
The Teen Leader Club also placed Christmas decorations at the county
hospital, purchased new school clothing for 2 children, sorted and bundled over
1,000 clothes hanger for CCAPS
Teen Leader Club members prepare to distribute supplies to area
schools.
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Impacts
- Four-H’ers learn to help others through community service projects
- Emerson 4-H Club volunteered at the nursing home, held 2 food drives for
CCAPS and Stewpot, held 2 craft demonstrations for the Resources Class,
donated clothes to burnout victims, served at the community VFD steak
supper, and raised money for a diving accident victim.
- The Livestock Project Club collected food for the foodbank and donated
money to a needy family for Christmas
- Atlanta 4-H raised money for a diving accident victim and hosted a
countywide CPR Class
- Force 4-H prepared and delivered Christmas baskets to a nursing home
- Care and Share 4-H made turkey shaped soap for nursing home residents,
provided magazines for county jail, and delivered holiday meals to the
elderly
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