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Submitted by paolo_naive on Mon, 07/07/2008 - 22:25.
The Big Kuya Project (Kuya means brother) of our club started last December 2006.
Sitio Kabulusan is one of the most depressed areas in the Philippines. People in this community would often fall in a state of lethargy, accompanied by occasional gambling, gossiping, and alcoholism (even at the wee hours of the morning). Most women of Sitio Kabulusan are stay-at-home moms, while fathers work as carpenters, construction workers, taxi, jeepney, and pedicab drivers. Their blue-collared jobs could not afford them a decent home. They live in frail, wooden houses besides a creek.
Submitted by Sarah_DeSalvo on Tue, 01/22/2008 - 11:24.
Free English classes are offered to our community two nights a week. With atleast fifty students in attendanace, our services have helped immigrants from more than 15 nations. Being in Texas, most of our students are from Mexico, but some are from Asia as well. Our volunteer program began two and a half years ago by college students and has been run solely by college students ever since. Every class, we come face to face with the desperate need for these men and women to learn English. They need jobs to provide for their families.
Submitted by alexamichele on Wed, 12/26/2007 - 19:21.
Mothers Without Borders is a non-profit organization that travels to Zambia in Africa and performs humanitarian aide to the good people there. It is well known that HIV and AIDS is an epidemic that is wiping out an entire generation. As more and more parents infected by HIV die, their orphaned children are then put in charge of caring for themselves. They have to find a way to provide food for their younger siblings even if this means they have to stop going to school. More than thirty six million children under the age of fifteen are orphaned in Sub-Saharan Africa today.
Submitted by tfitzmaurice89 on Wed, 12/26/2007 - 02:24.
The Fire Explorers is a program that lets teenagers and young adults experience and learn about the fire and emergency medical services. We explorers run the post. We elect our own officers, have dues that we collect monthly, and also plan our own meetings. We show leadership to our own explorers because we are leading each other with teamwork and responsibilities with help of our advisors.
Submitted by TheActiveStorm on Thu, 12/20/2007 - 00:08.
After coming back from a month of English teaching in Senegal, the lack of educational resources has inspired me to participate in literacy endeavours such as Books for Africa.
Submitted by GlobalLanguages on Wed, 12/12/2007 - 15:33.
The Global Language Group, also known as Global Languages, is a non-profit, official student organization of The George Washington University (GW). It was founded by GW student Andrew Brown in September 2005, in effort to develop cooperation within the community through the education of international languages and cultures.
Breaking down the language and culture barriers is the first and most important step to bringing people together around the world.
Submitted by adamangel1314 on Mon, 12/03/2007 - 21:45.
Ever since I was in the fourth grade, I had been involved in all sorts of community work. As I am a "half-professional" ballerina and Chinese Culture Dance(I have passed the highest level of the Royal Academy of Ballet and the Beijing Chinese Dance Institute but I do not plan to make a living in dancing), my parents and I decided to set up two projects in the places where I do volunteering work.
Submitted by mmeaghe1 on Thu, 11/29/2007 - 23:55.
This is a club of college students who meet with grade school children every week to do activities on a college campus. We introduce the kids to professors and visit different buildings on the Notre Dame campus to show the kids the benefits of attending college. The kids are in 1st through 4th grade, and none of their parents ever went to college. So, generally we are their first impression and experience with higher education. We teach them about all the opportunities college can offer, and how they could attend.
Submitted by palindrome on Wed, 11/21/2007 - 19:22.
My name is Hannah Rogers, and I am a senior at Landmark Christian School in Fairburn, Georgia. I would like to take a few minutes and tell you how I am impacting my community through education in the Arts. For the past three years, I have been a piano teacher, teaching children at my school ranging in ages from four to twelve. All of my students learn and practice basic piano and theory skills. I started out with two students, and my business has grown, reaching its maximum of seven students in 2006.
Submitted by jackierotman on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 02:05.
Summary: Everybody Dance Now! offers FREE, on-site, year-round classes for Santa Barbara's underprivileged youth. Functioning under Santa Barbara Dance Alliance's 501c3 nonprofit status, Everybody Dance Now! (EDN!) has taught dance at 16 sites to over 500 children and teens who might not otherwise have the opportunity. Mission: We strive to instill self-esteem and confidence in children through dance, while encouraging them to work toward goals in a supportive and creative learning environment.
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