As club meeting times become more difficult with the new seminar schedule, clubs such as UNICEF are attempting to work with the changes. The organization, comprised of almost all seniors according to the first meeting roster, has changed the time of the meetings in order to work better with the schedule.

Membership has been a struggle for the club, an organization devoted to raising funds for children in need around the world, for many reasons. UNICEF sponsor Kristen Crosbie believes that a higher amount of advertising would increase the club’s membership.

“I think we would have more people at meetings if the club was better advertised and the purpose of the club was better advertised,” Crosbie said.

Besides advertisement, in order to work better with students’ schedules, the meeting time has been changed to Friday at 7:15 a.m. UNICEF president Shannon McGraw says the club is important because it is different from all other clubs at the school.

“There is not a club like it at Mill Valley,” McGraw said. “It focuses on world issues and poverty and most students don’t really know about what’s going on right now [in the world],” McGraw said.

The club is a part of a larger organization focused on raising funds for those children in need around the world. Crosbie says students should join in order to experience something different than what is possible in the area.

“It’s doing good for the world community, which takes [students] out of the Johnson County bubble,” Crosbie said. “It’s fun [too].”

According to Crosbie, the main goal of the club this year is to raise money for children in Somalia.

The club will meet every Friday morning at 7:15 a.m. in room A-201. McGraw said UNICEF is a club that always welcomes new members.

“Join if you’d like to help kids and make a difference,” McGraw said.