Palmer Trinity junior Megan Vinas has a robust dedication to neighborhood service. Vinas is a member of Twenty Little Working Women, a service membership that raises cash and provides volunteers for a wide range of non-profits.
“We associate with The Chapman Partnership for the Homeless and Lotus Home, however the Chapman Partnership is considered one of our largest service organizations,” she says.
The ladies volunteer on the homeless shelter in Homestead.
“We normally we throw a Halloween extravaganza for them,” she says. “We carry meals from outdoors, and we assist serve it.”
Additionally they accumulate neighborhood donations for the teams they work with, relying on the wants of the group.
“Every time we do various things,” she says. “Generally, we’ll accumulate family cleansing objects, diapers and wipes or toys for the children.”
This 12 months Vinas served as historian on the chief board. As a historian she took footage at occasions and ran the Instagram account. Subsequent 12 months, she’s going to function vp. She’ll oversee recording the hours every member serves and what they volunteered for.
“We’ve got a minimal of three service alternatives annually,” she says. “My primary job is to examine in with the ladies to verify they fulfilled all the necessities to remain within the membership.”
Her volunteer efforts don’t cease with Twenty Little Working Women. She’s additionally concerned in Obtain Miami, going to Caribbean Ok-8 Heart to assist youngsters enhance their literacy expertise.
“I simply began it this college 12 months,” she says. “I like being their good friend and attending to know them.”
Vinas co-chairs the St. Thomas Episcopal 5K run which advantages Breakthrough Miami. The race is held yearly firstly of February.
She is without doubt one of the captains of the ladies’ varsity lacrosse workforce with the hope she may also be captain subsequent 12 months.
That’s fairly an achievement as till this 12 months, Vinas had been a aggressive dancer, however determined a change was so as and she or he joined the lacrosse workforce.
The workforce had an excellent 12 months, going so far as the District 16 1A finals earlier than dropping to Westminster Christian Faculty.
Her years in dance included all kinds of dance from hip hop to ballet and faucet. She was on the Miami Dance Collective virtually each day of the week.
“It was my second house,” she says. “it’s bizarre having extra time on my palms.”
Except for lacrosse, in school she’s a member of the maths honor society, Mu Alpha Theta, the Nationwide Honor Society, and the Spanish Nationwide Honor Society.
Vinas serves as a peer counselor. It’s a membership that the scholars must be nominated for.
Peer counselors are given particular coaching on the problems and assist the scholars. They work alongside the varsity counselors to assist youngsters who want somebody to speak to.
“It’s rather less intimidating than if a instructor was speaking to them,” she says.
She works primarily with center college college students. She and one other peer counselor not too long ago met with women in a homeroom and mentioned totally different situations and the way they’d react to them. The situations cowl a wide range of matters, together with bullying.
“My entire life I’ve at all times cherished serving to folks and making them really feel included,” she says.
Now that she’s about to be a senior, she’s contemplating her faculty choices. She’s within the medical area or psychology.
Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld
ABOUT US:
For extra Miami neighborhood information, look no additional than Miami Group Newspapers. This Miami on-line group of newspapers covers a wide range of matters about the area people and past. Miami’s Group Newspapers presents every day information, on-line sources, podcasts and different multimedia content material to maintain readers knowledgeable. With matters starting from native information to neighborhood occasions, Miami’s Group Newspapers is the best supply for staying updated with the most recent information and happenings within the space.
This family-owned media firm publishes greater than a dozen neighborhood publications, magazines, particular sections on their web sites, newsletters, in addition to distributing them in print all through Miami Dade County from Aventura, Sunny Isles Seaside, Miami Seaside, Coral Gables, Brickell, Coconut Grove, Pinecrest, South Miami, Kendall, Palmetto Bay, Cutler Bay and Homestead. Every on-line publication and print editions present complete protection of native information, occasions, enterprise updates, life-style options, and native initiatives inside its respective neighborhood.
Moreover, the newspaper has unique Miami neighborhood podcasts, offering listeners with an in-depth look into Miami’s tradition. Whether or not you’re in search of native Miami information, or podcasts, Miami’s Group Newspapers has you coated. For extra data, remember to take a look at: https://communitynewspapers.com.
When you’ve got any questions, be at liberty to electronic mail Michael@communitynewspapers.com or Grant@communitynewspapers.com.
