UPDATE: Volunteers Needed: Prevent Child Abuse Awareness events

Prevent Child Abuse Hawaii has reached out to GSH asking if we can help them with two upcoming visual awareness events. They are seeking volunteers to help with pinwheel planting in two areas of Oahu. This is a great opportunity to come together with multiple troops.

Pinwheel Planting event

Hawaii State Capital Building

Sunday April 3, 2016, from 2-4 pm 

They need help "planting' approximately 1000 pinwheels. 

Approximately 40-50 girl scouts to help with this event.  
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Pinwheel Planting event 

Kapolei Police Station

Saturday April 9, 2016, from 2-4 pm

They need help "planting' approximately 500 pinwheels

Approximately 20-25 girl scouts to help with this event. 
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Prevent Child Abuse Hawaii will provide the pinwheels and bamboo sticks to place the pinwheels on and rubber mallets.Girls who participate in either event will earn a community service patch for the event.  If you are interested in participating please fill out the Wufoo form above. If you have any questions contact Chet Adessa from Prevention Child Abuse Hawaii at adessajrc001@hawaii.rr.com or by phone at (Home: 808-672-3678 or Cell: 808-927-0555) directly. Contact Alicia DeVoll (adevoll@girlscouts-hawaii.org) for patches. 

History:

In 2008, Prevent Child Abuse America introduced the pinwheel as the new national symbol for child abuse prevention through Pinwheels for Prevention®. What our research showed, and what our experiences since then have borne out, is that people respond to the pinwheel. By its very nature, the pinwheel connotes whimsy and childlike notions. In essence, it has come to serve as the physical embodiment, or reminder, of the great childhoods we want for all children.

As part of a national movement to stop child abuse and neglect before it occurs, Prevent Child Abuse Hawaii, Department of Health and the Child Abuse Prevention Planning Council, a committee of private, state and federal organizations, sponsor Child Abuse Prevention Month during April each year. April is devoted to the issue of child abuse prevention because of its high incidence of child abuse. Child Abuse Prevention Month has been observed each April since its first presidential proclamation in 1983. Since that time, millions of Americans have participated each year in this crucial public awareness campaign.