Area service group forming

Home-schoolers would get chance to join Key Club

Lafayette, Louisiana, Daily Advertiser
http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20081118/NEWS01/811180317/1002

Home-schoolers will have the opportunity to help the community by joining a newly formed service organization just for home-schoolers.

The Acadiana Homeschool Key Club will have its first informational meeting at noon today in the Lafayette Public Library.

Key Club International is the world's largest high school service organization.

Home-schooled 10th-grader McKenna Andrepont started the club after being approached by the St. Martinville Kiwanis Club, who offered to sponsor its charter. "Key Club is the high school equivalent of Kiwanis," Andrepont said.

The club would be the first school for home-schooled students in the Louisiana, Mississippi and West Tennessee Kiwanis District.

However, to start a chapter, there must be 15 members. Andrepont expects between five and nine home-schoolers are interested, but will not have definite numbers until today's meeting.

The organization already has one project in mind—they will help with the Bridge Ministry of Acadiana's A Gift of Music Christmas concert, set to be held Dec. 14 at River Ranch.

After that project, the club can pick projects as a group and attend Key Club conventions all over the U.S. A secure Web site will be set up online to have online meetings and limit long travels for some students.