On Wednesday December 8, 2021 Youth and Students for Peace (YSP) Chicago collaborated on a service project hosted by CARP (Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles) during their last on-campus meeting of the semester at Harper Community College.
The service project was prefaced with a brief introduction about YSP and its mission to inspire youth to take action and create peace within their communities through doing service projects. The relationship between YSP and CARP is a symbiotic one that allows CARP members the opportunity to put into practice the character education they learned by doing service projects that serve a community.
For the service project the group put together snack bags for people in need at the All Saints Lutheran Church. All the members and guests formed an assembly around a table writing positive affirmations on the bags, passing them down and putting an assortment of snacks in them, and even decorating unique bookmarks. As the bags made their way around the assembly line the participating students and adults could socialize and share about the different service projects they have participated in the past. In the end the group was able to put together nearly 30 snack bags for the church.