TODAY is Speak Up For Service Day~

Speak Up For Service Day – October 30

SPEAK UP FOR SERVICE DAY

Speak Up For Service Day is being established to recognize the importance of telling others about the need for young people to be actively involved in community service. Too often, good deeds of service by young people go unnoticed by their communities. Speak Up For Service Day gives recognition to the unnoticed and serves as a reminder that people should tell others about the contributions of young people to their communities.

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HISTORY

The Speak Up For Service Project’s history began in 2003, when the Fargo (North Dakota) Lions Club initiated a public speaking contest for area high school students in honor of Laura Christensen Espejo, a woman who devoted her life to improving the health care services available to the less fortunate in the Fargo community and in Peru, the country of her husband Lucho. Lion Robert Littlefield coordinated the contest on the local level before launching it as a statewide initiative while serving as District Governor in 2010-2011.

In 2010, the first annual Lions Speak Up For Service public speaking contest was held at the North Dakota State Lions Convention in Grand Forks. High school students who entered the competition spoke on topics related to young people and community service.

If you were going to 'Speak Up For Service', what story would YOU tell? What young person would YOU honor? We'd love to hear it in the comments!