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Formerly known as the Friends Club, or For Seti Club, De Anza's Furendo Suppondo Club is a support club that engages in fundraisers to help De Anza students as well as our community.

The club decided to change its name to this "fictive, catchy name that our Treasurer and I came up with at the beginning of this quarter when we redesigned our logo," said President Marcel Wilson. "It doesn't have an official meaning, but it's supposed to remind of the words "Friend" and "Support" and sound sort of Latin."

This club's main concern is to help out people in need in the community, and it has done so in a variety of different ways. In the past, Furendo Suppondo has held fundraisers such as selling hamburgers at the monthly flea market on the De Anza Campus and using this money towards community centers in Cupertino. In addition, they have also used the money to buy blankets and distribute them to the homeless downtown.

They are currently working together with the Cupertino Community Service Center for future donations. Although unable to do so on a frequent basis, Furendo Suppondo was proud of their $1,000 donation to the Child Development Center on Campus.

Furendo Suppondo also makes it a priority to make intercultural connections with other clubs on campus by arranging trips to the beach, to bowling alleys, BBQs at the park and whatever else that allows them to form a closer community.

Furendo Suppondo is currently working on their FuSu Book Drive, which is a system of loaning out textbooks for free to students who are in need of financial help. They are currently looking for any students who would like to help and donate their books for this cause instead of selling them back to the bookstore. They are working on establishing a website to implement this donating system.

In addition, they are conducting a survey for students to help create another system to help carpooling space. They hope to create a website where students can register and search for tranportation oppurtunities by searching by zip code. In order to get this done, they are looking for students who are skilled in computer programming to help their club create these websites.

Anyone in need of a friendly group and who wants to help a good cause can catch Furendo Suppondo at their meetings on Fridays from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in Student Council Chamber. New members are always welcome.

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