As we approach our final presentation on our community engaged learning on Friday, it is bittersweet. It is sad to leave our community sites for the final times, but it is also an amazing feeling to look back and see how much we were able to accomplish this semester! I have added a page to my blog for each of my community sites (linked below). I also wanted to provided a brief summary of the projects that were completed at other sites!
At the Erasmus Early Child Development Center (ECD), they organized a zoo trip for the Grade R (equivalent of kindergarten) students using money from our GiveCampus fundraising. At Sjambok Primary School, three of us met weekly with about fifteen girls to talk about menstruation. Thanks to donations outside of our GiveCampus fundraising they were able to leave the school with a supply of over 3000 pads to help female students who would normally skip school during their periods. At Funanani Primary School, they focused on helping the students with their reading skills and updating the school's library. They were also able to start a pen pal exchange between a grade 3 class and a third grade class in the United States. Thanks to the $6000 raised through our GiveCampus campaign, at an ECD in Pretoria West, they were able to arrange for flush toilets to be installed to replace the unsanitary drop toilets previously being used. In all of the locations, we were able to spend time interacting with the students even when they did not speak English which was always a refreshing break from the more frustrating parts of our projects.
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