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WHAT WE DO AND WHY WE DO IT Our Exchange Club, The Exchange Club of Fort Bend, performs services under four categories: The Prevention of Child Abuse Community Service Service to Youth The Promotion of Americanism You may ask the question as to each of our activities, “Why do you serve?”. Here’s why.

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WHAT WE DO AND WHY WE DO IT

Our Exchange Club, The Exchange Club

of Fort Bend, performs services under four

categories:

•The Prevention of Child Abuse

•Community Service

•Service to Youth

•The Promotion of Americanism

You may ask the question as to each of

our activities, “Why do you serve?”.

Here’s why.

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Service Category & Activity Why We Serve

1. “The Shaken Baby Syndrome” is an

educational program in which we go

into high schools and teach young

adults about the injuries which can

result from shaking a baby.

To ensure that an unknown number

of infants can develop into healthy

adults.

2. We make monetary donations to the

ESCAPE Family Resource Center.

To counsel parents so they can

avoid abusing their children.

3. We donate teddy bears to a family court.

On child adoption day, they are given to

the adopted children.

To give youngsters one more

happy memory and cuddly symbol

of the day they began their new life.

4. We celebrate April as National Child

Abuse Prevention Month, by placing

blue ribbon clad stakes on the

courthouse lawn.

To remind citizens of their

responsibility to fight the war

against child abuse.

THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE

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Service Category & Activity Why We Serve

1. We bring cake and ice cream to a

Seniors Assisted Living Center and

hold monthly birthday parties.

To let those who raised and

mentored our generation know that

they are not forgotten.

2. We join other clubs in holding an annual

dinner to honor Fort Bend County police

officers.

To show our appreciation to those

who each day jeopardize their lives

and safety to safeguard ours.

3. Santa’s Exchange: We join with other

clubs to provide Christmas gifts to

underprivileged children.

To bring a smile to a child’s face on

Christmas morning.

4. We help to host a Christmas party for

residents of the Richmond State

Supported Living Center.

To bring Christmas cheer to our

brothers and sisters with

developmental disabilities.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

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Service Category & Activity Why We Serve

1. We recognize extraordinary

scholastic and extracurricular

achievement in high school youth

with Youth of the Month Awards.

To reward and encourage the best

of our youth so that they can serve

others.

2. We recognize good deeds and

character in our middle school youth

with Young Citizenship Awards.

To teach our youth that it is more

important to be a good person than

it is to be a smart person.

3. We recognize a high school senior who

has overcome severe adversity with our

Accepting the Challenge of Excellence

Award (A.C.E.).

To reward the courage of a

triumphant young adult.

SERVICE TO YOUTH

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Service Category & Activity Why We Serve

1. We give children small American flags

to wave at local parades.

To instill pride for our country in

children.

2. We celebrate Veterans Day by

assembling with veterans for a

“One Nation Under God” breakfast.

To honor those who were willing to

make the supreme sacrifice.

3. We display in community buildings,

replicas of 28 great writings which

shaped our society, known as

“The Freedom Shrine”.

To perpetuate the awareness that

the United States of America is the

greatest country on earth.

AMERICANISM

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WHAT WE DO AND WHY WE DO IT

In summary, to answer the question, “What is Exchange,” we Exchangites will tell you that it is America’s Service Club. As to why we serve, we Exchangites will tell you that it is because we are called to serve.