On Friday which was October 30th, Kenji, Ms.Tanuja, and I met for our first meeting this year for Hope For Kids. In the meeting, we covered points regarding how service might look in the coming year and we brainstormed a list of possible activities that can be done even during DLP( distance learning program). A few points we touched upon were awareness videos and videos to entertain the children at the CCC house. The CCC house is a transit home for children who are facing cancer. During our Brainstorm session, we also made a list of the struggles we might have while doing those activities so that we are prepared for the issues that might arise in the future. We also decided that this year we should also start focusing on cancer as a problem in the whole country and spread this message among our school community.

After this Kenji and I started to discuss what were the main things we needed to include for this service video and we listed down three main sections one was the introduction, then a section with Ms.Tanuja (service supervisor) speaking, and last was an interview with past service leaders. To get started on Friday we finished writing our script which included research about cancer in Sri Lanka, the interview questions, and what this service group has done in the past. Once we finished writing the script we reached out to our past service leaders asking them if they were willing to participate in the video. On Monday Kenji and I shot our parts of the video on zoom and after a couple of tries, we finally got it done. We went through the old pictures that we had when we visited the CCC house and then picked a few. To consolidate all these different documents I created a shared drive so that it was organized and easy to access all the documents even in the future if we needed them. Kenji finished editing the video and then uploaded it onto Youtube. This video has been used on the google form that was sent out, to help students make their choice of which service they want to be.

Hope For Kids Service Video