Pack 214 Volunteering

Pack 214 also helps support our local community and organizations.

Greenway Clean-Up (Adopt-a-Stream)

Pack 214 has adopted a portion of Four Mile Creek and conducts clean-ups along our section of the creek several times a year, typically in June, September, and April.

Jared Boxes

The pack also makes Jared Boxes each year to donate to local hospitals. Each shoebox contains small gifts, toys, games, crayons, coloring books and fun activities selected for a specific age and gender child, which hospitals can give to young patients in emergency rooms, hospital rooms, surgical centers and clinics.

DSA

The Down Syndrome Association of Charlotte is a wonderful organization that helps parents of newborn Down Syndrome children find resources and answers they need. They also sponsor a number of camps for older children with Down Syndrome.

In October 2018, the DSA sent a speaker to our October Pack Meeting for Down Syndrome Awareness Month. The scouts learned about people with different abilities and got to try socks on their hands and button/unbutton their shirts so they could feel what it was like to have sensory issues. It was a great lesson for the scouts as to the differing abilities and challenges that others deal with daily.

In 2018, Pack 214 volunteered to help at the annual 3-2-1 Dash, a 5k raising money for DSA programs and Down Syndrome awareness.