By Brian Kaiserman
Staff Writer
Whatever the temperature is, Six Degrees of a Better Generation is always striving to help out the community and take care of those in need.
The club was initially created in 2014 by former student Jake Ambrose in order to help kids who have been hospitalized at a young age, current club president Kristin Wong said. The club has meetings which are held every Thursday at lunch in Mrs. Hearn’s room and its two presidents are junior Wong and Sam Frias.
“Sam and myself both love helping our community and participating in clubs so we thought that it was a great opportunity to become co-presidents of a club that we are both passionate about,” Wong said.
This year Wong and Frias were promoted to co-presidents of Six Degrees of a Better Generation. As the leaders of the club, the girls have equal power in their leading and managing of the club’s affairs.
“Being president of the club is a lot of responsibility because we have to make a lot of difficult decisions but I enjoy the work that comes with it and I love working with Sam because we communicate really well and we get to make a lot of important decisions about funds together,” Wong said.
In order to do raise money the club will hold fundraisers, organized by co-presidents Wong and Frias. These fundraisers consist of bake sales and they will also participate in club day. With the money raised they hope to buy materials which they will use to make crafts with the hospitalized kids when they visit the Millers Children’s Hospital.
“I love working with kids and I think completing crafts with them will be a great experience for myself and the other members in our club,” Wong said.
The club works with the Millers Children’s Hospital in Long Beach which brings the members of the club and the hospitalized children together. The club has not yet participated in a hospital visit to the Miller’s Children’s hospital but plans to begin in December.
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“I love being able to help out the community and it’s awesome that I am able to work in a hospital because I want to have a career in science in the future where I will be in a similar environment,” Frias said.
On the day they visit the hospital, they will complete holiday themed crafts with the children to help them cope with the trauma of being hospitalized at a young age Wong says. Frias says that helping out in the community is a tremendous honor for her.
“I am very excited to have our first hospital visit in December, because I truly believe that our club can make a difference in these children’s lives and to me that means everything,” Frias said.
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