EASTABOGA — A new service club at Rainbow Omega offers residents the opportunity to give back to their community.

“We have done several community service projects so far,” said Andrea Wilson, director of development at Rainbow Omega.

Wilson said about 50 of the 79 residents at Rainbow Omega chose to join the Aktion Club of Rainbow Omega, sponsored by the Lincoln and Pell City Kiwanis clubs.

“The Aktion Club is for adults with any disability,” she said. “I think our club is one of the largest in the country.”

Marie Moore, Kiwanis lieutenant governor for Division 8, said the Aktion Club of Rainbow Omega, which received its charter earlier this year, is the fourth Aktion Club in the state.

“The Aktion Club members elected officers and a board of directors,” Wilson said. “And they came up with the ideas for service projects.”

Wilson said the club members made care packages for soldiers in Afghanistan for their first service project.

“They made cards for the soldiers and also bought magazines and toiletries and snacks to send to them,” she said.

Wilson said the club members meet once a month, and try to complete a community service project each month. The July project involved decorating bags and filling them with snacks. The bags will be given out to residents at a local nursing home.

“If they don’t complete the project during that meeting, then they complete it the next month,” she said.

Wilson said the club members rallied behind the idea and concept of giving back.

“They really like the idea — they want to help people less fortunate than them,” she said.

Wilson said in the past, the Rainbow Omega residents have done Thanksgiving food drives for the needy. The Aktion Club expands the opportunities for the residents to help others.

Brittany Walsh, secretary for the Aktion Club of Rainbow Omega, said other service project ideas include picking up trash on the roadways, putting together a basket of food for a needy family, participating in Relay for Life and making luminaries (several club members have family members who are breast cancer survivors), and planting flowers at the local churches residents attend.

“People come up to me with ideas and I write down the ideas and get them to the correct person,” she said.

Walsh said her favorite service project so far was making the notes and care package to send to the troops in Afghanistan.

“My favorite part of the club is meeting with all my friend,” she said. “I am excited seeing and hanging out with my friends and doing fun things.”

Contact Elsie Hodnett at ehodnett@dailyhome.com.