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Service Opportunities
Sign up for these local service opportunites when you register, and please check back for opportunities to serve as a volunteer at the conference.

Service Excursion: San Diego Food Bank*
$25/per person (includes transportation and a service excursion t-shirt- please specify size)

The San Diego Food Bank provides more than 660,000 meals to 160,000 individuals throughout San Diego County each month. To manage the 10 million pounds of food distributed annually, the organization depends greatly on community volunteers. Volunteers at this service excursion will help this wonderful organization by working on the distribution food line to assemble boxes of food that are distributed to seniors, pregnant women and children.

Service Excursion: San Diego Beach Clean-Up*
$25/per person (includes transportation and a service excursion t-shirt- please specify size)

Join the San Diego Coastkeeper Organization for a day at the beach. Volunteers for this service excursion will help keep the San Diego coastline clear and free of the litter and marine debris that damages the environment, threatens public health and undermines the local quality of life.

In 2007, Coastkeeper began data collection on the different types of marine debris found on the beach during cleanups. Volunteers will be provided with a data card, which they will use to keep a tally of all the debris they remove while participating in the cleanup. The purpose of these new cards is to quantify the data and use the information to educate and inform the public and local businesses about the types of debris we are finding and the harmful effects it has on the marine environment.

Service Excursion: Rescue Task Force

$25/per person (25 person limit)

The Rescue Task Force is a non-profit organization dedicated to producing backpacks for wounded officers coming home from overseas full of everyday necessities.  Severely wounded Marines, Soldiers, Airman, and Sailors are often medically-evacuated within three days of being injured.  In the process they are separated from their personal belongings and arriving stateside in a hospital gown, and sometimes in the field uniform that they were wearing when injured.

Rescue Task Force delivers these wounded soldiers a unique Back Pack full of necessities including warm sweats, t-shirts, flip flops, full shaving bag and much more.  Many go directly into isolation/quarantine and are alone, separated from family, fellow team members, and face an unknown future.

Each Back Pack also contains "Heart Medicine," also known as entertainment items that might include a cell phone with minutes, Game-boy & games, CD players with CD's and most important, a letter of Thanks to let them know they are NOT forgotten.

RSI volunteers would be taken by bus to the Rescue Task Force in El Cajon, CA, where they would put together 80-85 of these wonderful Rescue Back Packs for injured soldiers coming back to the United States.

* Service Excursions are tentative and subject to change. If you register in advance for a service excursion, we will notify you of any significant changes.