Exchange Student & Tempe Community Action

Feb 18 – Guest speakers at today’s meeting were our high school exchange student (pictured) and Stephen Sparks, executive director of Tempe Community Action Agency , a non-profit serving the poor and elderly in Tempe.  Stephen explained the wide range of TCAA in providing 320,000 pounds of food per year as well as temporary housing for homeless people, managing Meals on Wheels, providing community gardens and other programs.  He outlined a possible project for the club: to fund and build a raised garden bed to increase TCAA’s capacity to grow vegetables.  Our exchange student provided a survey of his native countries, the Netherlands and Belgium.  He explained how his participation in Corona’s football program last fall enabled him to make many friends early in his school year and that he is now on the tennis team.  He will return to the Netherlands in June to participate in his sister’s wedding and will be attending college there next Fall to study commercial economics.