While the Chinese are celebrating the year of the ox, Moorpark College celebrates the year of service.

Moorpark College hosted a Service Fair held in the campus quad Sept. 9, with organizations from all around Ventura County attending to offer students volunteer opportunities.

Adeline Oka, a former Moorpark College student, gave a speech on what it takes to make service a career.

Oka has done many services in the urban community including working with the homeless, child prostitutes, and education. 



Janice Daurio and John Birmingham gave students the chance to share their opinions on service and learn from one another at an all-campus seminar. Lastly to end the celebration there was a free performance of the comedy “Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music.

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”Why should we give?” is a question asked all throughout the event. Many representatives at the Service Fair helped answer this question.

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Feeding people is one of the basics in life,” Meg Horton of Food Share Inc. said. “You don’t eat, you don’t live. So just to be able to help people find food feels amazing.” 


Food Share Inc. feeds nearly 30,000 homeless people in Ventura County each year.

For students looking to help children outside of America, Hope for Children was on campus to find students to gather donations.

“There was only one thing worse than seeing a child die of AIDS, and that was seeing a child die of AIDS who doesn’t have a loving parents’ arms to die into,” Tom Starko of Hope for Children said. 

For more information on organizations that are open to volunteers visit MoorparkCollege.edu/yos.