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Emancipation Network

The Emancipation Network's mission is to to improve the lives of slavery survivors through economic empowerment and education, raise awareness about slavery, and engage people to action.

Environmental Club

The Environmental Club is a student group to promote environmental awareness and action in the school community. Over the years we have increased recycling at the high school, made and maintained a garden out back, replaced plastic bags with canvas ones at the IGA, led beach cleanups, started a school system-wide composting campaign, and gone on outdoor excursions.

Gay-Straight Alliance

The GSA (Gay Straight Alliance) welcomes all students interested in civil rights and social justice, with a particular focus on gay, lesbian, bi, and questioning students. The goal is to educate and raise awareness of the difficulties and challenges facing this group of students and to advocate for a more accepting and safe CEHS and community environment for these and all students.

Interact

Interact is a club that organizes various charity events in association with the Rotary Club of South Portland and Cape Elizabeth. Past projects include:

• A book drive for Kaldoret orphanage in Kenya
• Pet food and supplies collection for the Animal Welfare Society
• Writing of Valentine's Day cards for patients at Maine Medical Center and seniors at the Village Crossings retirement home in Cape Elizabeth
• A school supply drive for children in Iraq
• Collection of toys for the Barbara Bush Children's Hospital
• A blood drive for the Red Cross
• Various Rotary Club fundraising events

Peer Tutors

If you're great at some subject in school, consider passing on that knowledge! Peer tutors are matched with one person or a whole group, usually during a study hall.

Safe Passage

Safe Passage (Camino Seguro) is an organization that provides education for children of poor families who scavenge the Guatemala City garbage dump.

Siddhartha School Project

The Siddhartha School Club is composed of students interested in preserving Tibetan culture, which faces oppression from China. The club has two objectives:

1. to raise student awareness of the human rights issues concerning Tibet today
2. to raise money to support The Siddhartha School located in Ladakh, India.

As part of this second objective, students also sponsor a student at the school, contributing funds to help pay her tuition. At Cape, club members help organize lectures and meditation sessions and hold bake sales to raise money for the Siddhartha School. It is very easy for Cape students to be active in sports or competitive extracurricular activities and still participate in the the Siddhartha School Club, since meetings and events vary according to the schedules of student members.

Volunteer Club

The Volunteer Club of CEHS is a group of high school students led by faculty advisors who volunteer their time in various ways. Students choose which types of volunteer projects they want to do, which include such things as:

• Mentoring at Pond Cove and the Middle School during one study hall a week
• Assisting with after-school programs for immigrant children at Reiche School in Portland
• Conducting a food drive for the local food pantry and helping out at the soup kitchen
• Volunteering at the Children's Museum
• Working at Mercy Hospital
• Helping with the Red Cross blood drive