Earning Farmgirl Sisterhood Merit Badges

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1. Community Service

Beginner

• Start a Community Service Journal.
• In your journal, research and write down three community organizations you could help by donating your time.
• Choose one organization from the three and find out how to volunteer.
• Each day that you volunteer, write a quick synopsis of what you did, and don’t forget to record how many hours or minutes you volunteered.
• To complete this merit badge, you must donate 10 hours total of community service.
• If you are a member of a Farmgirl Chapter, give a report on what you have been doing and how it is positively impacting your community.

Intermediate

• Continue working with your chosen organization or choose a new one.
• Your time requirement for this level is an additional 20 hours of volunteer work.
• Talk with the volunteer director and the organizer of your chosen organization. Learn more about what it takes to accept volunteers and how the organization makes the most of its donated time.
• Continue to keep track of your progress in your Community Service Journal.
• Give a report on what you have been doing on the Farmgirl Connection chatroom under Merit Badge Chit Chat and how it is positively impacting your community.

Expert

• Write in your journal at least five needs your community has that you could fill.
• Work with your chosen organization to expand their current abilities to serve the community better or start your own community service related organization. Work an additional 40 hours at your chosen organization.
• Give a report on what you have been doing on the Farmgirl Connection chatroom under Merit Badge Chit Chat and how it is positively impacting your community.

April, 2024 Edition