Rotary Club of Kirkland Student of the Month for January Andy Alkin strives to be outgoing, friendly, caring throughout his daily life, and to get to know many different people in the local community. Andy often volunteers in food drives, park cleanups, and youth camps. He also played on the varsity soccer team all four years of his high school career, and plays in a band and writes original songs. Andy plans to major in economics in college so he can create new financial mechanisms and applications such as micro-loans and budget planning to help people, especially the underprivileged, to overcome financial challenges.Andy’s family is from Ukraine, so when the war began Andy founded the non-profit Youth Soccer for Peace. He mounted a "Soccer For Ukraine" campaign and hosted soccer bootcamps that are donation-based for local children and free for refugees. The workshops provide soccer instruction and help refugee children integrate into the local community. Earnings from the campaign are helping build a soccer field for an orphanage in Ukraine and helping local refugees.