HSI Club

THE HUMANE SCHOOL INITIATIVE CLUB or HSI Club seeks to form a Youth Lead for a Humane World

It is a students’ club that plans school wide programs, activities, and events to accomplish the mission and the vision of the Humane School Initiative.

Mission: 
To create a safer, greener, and more compassionate school environment. To invite students to embrace a vision for a humane world.

Instrument: 
Humane Education.

Vision: 
A safer school where students treat each other with respect and kindness. 
A greener school that cares to reduce its negative environmental impact. 
A compassionate school that stands against the cruelty and suffering of all sentient beings including animals.
A school where students have a vision of a humane world and live making choices and seeking solutions to fulfill that vision

COMMITTEES: Solutionary Teams (ST)

1.  Social Issues ST: Its aim is to create a safer school environment by implementing programs that help reduce or eliminate hate, violence, bullying, name calling, intolerance, discrimination, negative peer pressure, and/or any other behavior that prevent positive human relations or threatens the school safety.

2. Green Issues ST: Its aim is to create a greener school environment by implementing programs that help reduce the school carbon’s footprint, minimize solid waste production, implement the three Rs (Reduce, Reduce Recycle) to the use of schools supplies, paper, water, and other resources; incorporate locally produced organic food and/or growing organic edible gardens, and other green school initiatives. 

3. Animal Issues ST:  Its aim is to bring alive the educational status of being kind to animals, creating a more compassionate school environment by implementing programs that educate the school community about the cruelty and abuse inflicted upon animals in various industries such as food, clothing, experimentation, entertainment, sports, pets, etc.  Shows, promotes, and implements the available alternative to animal products, by-products, or any other uses of animals.

*Culture and Change: It is a component that reviews in each committee our responses to the issues of social justice, animal cruelty, and environmental degradation according to our cultural programming. It promotes critical thinking, and invites students to evaluate their choices and the messages they receive from peers, corporations, media, etc., so that they can make more informed choices. 

MEMBERSHIP

Membership is open to all school students without regards of race, body type, ethnicity, language, gender, sexual orientation or identity, ideological-philosophical-political-or-religious affiliation or creed. We welcome visionaries, progressives, idealists, dreamers, artists, gigs, designers, musicians, world changers, innovator, critical thinkers, problem solvers, and most importantly, those who stand for social justice, environmental responsibility, and for a compassionate and humane treatment of animals. Those with a sense of service and dedication to do what is right in order to have a better school, a better community, and a better world. 

Members should show a proper moral character that reflects the values of our club at all times specially when wearing the club shirt or when participating at any club event or activity. Poor character, three consecutive absences, or not participating in the club events may result on the dissolution of membership.

FEES

Members show their genuine interest in joining the club by submitting the club dues. Club dues are $15.00 collected once a year at the moment of joining the club.

CLUB SHIRT

The design of the club shirt will be suggested and voted by members. Part of the club fees will cover the one time screen charges of the shirt. The price of the club shirt will be announced when the design is complete and quoted.

MEETINGS

I- Week One: Twice a week. (Teams and All members meetings)

1. All teams meet in one day, and then there is a second meeting where all members meet to report on the Teams agreements.
2. One team per day meets and then there is a second meeting where all members meet to report on the Teams agreements.

II-Week Two: Humane Education Friday, where sponsors, members, or a guest speaker offer a special humane education presentation.

Officers meeting: Officers meet the first school day of the month, and again if needed.

There are four special meetings during the school year: First Official Club Meeting, Take the Pledge Meeting, Introduce a Friend Meeting, Awards Ceremony Meeting. 

ATTENDANCE

Members in good standing need to maintain a proper attendance to be able to receive the club benefits. The member will receive a monthly report card or certificate with the amount of hours volunteered per week including club meetings, school activities and events. The member will receive a separate certificate for each community service activity s/he engages in. These report cards and certificates will be presented at the end of the school year to receive the community service hours, and the end of the year WORLD CHANGER CERTIFICATE and a recommendation letter. Students who abandoned the club before the end of the year meeting won’t qualify to receive their World Changer Certificate and the recommendation letter.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Every hour invested in the club, whereas in club meeting, and club activities and events count for community service hours. It is required that members participate in at least one community event or service per month, and one drive per month.