I did my service learning at the Village of Hope in Gomoa-Fetteh, central region, Ghana. We were a team of four students including myself, Sappah Yahaya, Ekow Nyameye Spio and Ayishetu Seidu. The primary motivation for choosing the Village of Hope has been that we all appreciate efforts geared towards providing quality education for disadvantaged children in deprived communities. As such, we decided to pull our skills together to contribute to this social cause that the Village of Hope has embarked on.
Going into this service learning, I revisited my SWOT analysis to review my strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Obviously, I knew I had to work on my weaknesses and threats if I were to truly make an impact in this community. Of course the Village of Hope is an established institution and has its own ways of accomplishing tasks. And so, this service learning for me, was not about going to create something new. It was about giving all that I have to support the work there. Thus, we discussed with Araba Saakoa Amuasi Adjei, our contact person, to identify the areas that we could make our skills useful. We were offered accommodation, but we had to plan and budget for food.
We did some construction works, including laying slides of clay bricks, and constructing a bridge and a gutter. Even more, I learnt how to mix, fetch mortar and concrete. I learnt a great deal of team spirit from this experience. Construction is multipart and requires multiple skills to get
The reading of Gangstas, wankstas, and Ridas have reinforced my desire of working with the poor communities. The Five Pillars of effective practice in the Ridas’ classroom have helped me to identify the strength of teaching and mentoring. As a mentor, I do plenty of preparation to assist my students as much as possible and prioritize their needs. I strongly agree with Pillar 2, which is serving the community. As bishop Romero, I am a servant of poor people, which is reinforced by the words of Woodson “You cannot serve people by giving them orders as to what to do.
SLE Introductory paper This autumn I will be participating in a service learning project through UA Little Rock’s School of Social Work. In order to accomplish this goal, I will be volunteering a minimum of twenty hours at Kindred Hospice. As part of my SLE, this document will provide basic information about my chosen agency, the role of the social worker at the agency and, it will serve to clarify my top learning objectives during this project. Kindred Hospice is a division of Kindred health care.
This volunteer experience allowed me to implement servant leadership principles including, listening, empathy, stewardship and commitment to the growth of others and building of the community. Speaking with and listening to the donors, has shown me the importance in taking the time to learn the stories of others and how as servant leaders,
Target corporation has many different location-related decisions to process in more than one aspect. The company must decide on the location of its retail stores, manufactures, and support help. Often the decision to outsource or participate in offshoring can be tempting to a company. Well the impact of outsourcing and offshoring must be examined to ensure that the decision is in the best interest of the company.
Coming from a different culture but still embracing the Christian values that Loma Linda University emphasizes, I believe that my unique background and personal experiences distinguish my application from others. Growing up in Egypt, where the gap between social classes is significant, my parents always stressed the need to prioritize service into my life encouraging me to dedicate time in volunteering and helping others. As a result, my experience has grown from volunteering to serve as a camp leader for orphans in the summer to participating in international dental service trips. These involvements would allow me to use my skills in organizing missions trips at Loma Linda. Being a Coptic Orthodox Christian enables me to add diversity to the
Arnold Schwarzenegger once said, “Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, the greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring to your own life.” This quote clearly explains what service truly means to people that care about others from their heart. National Honor Society is an organization which recognizes students’ achievements not just with exceeding grades, but with service, leadership, and character. Serving others is an important and valuable pillar of the National Honor Society.
Through this service learning experience, I have learned a lot about developing children and how to apply my learning from N1I02 and N1J02 in terms of developmental considerations to help develop trust with my students and build relationships. The skill that I feel was developed the most through this placement was communication. I have always been above average with my communication skills, however, that was with people my own age, or with people who were older than me. I have not had as much experience communicating with people who are significantly younger than I am. It requires a different approach, and the ability to develop trust with the person before you can communicate effectively with them.
SWOT Analysis Before we implemented our opioid addiction and rehabilitation service, it was important for us to examine what obstacles we might face and need to overcome as well as what we might be able use in our favor to help with our service. We performed a SWOT analysis to help identify the external opportunities and threats that were present as well as our internal strengths and weaknesses so that we might more efficiently jumpstart our service. External SWOT Analysis
Throughout my life I have been blessed with more opportunities than many other people my age. This is why I strive to act on all of the opportunities I have been given, while also satisfying my passion for giving back to those who are less fortunate. Firstly, one of the most beneficial events in shaping myself was attending the National Student Leadership Conference. Hundreds of students are chosen annually for their outstanding leadership qualities within their communities. During the one and half week camp, students not only focus on improving their leadership qualities, but also get hands on experience in the field of their choice.
Dr. J.R. Bester founder of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) is headquartered in McLean, Virginia and employ 40,000 people in 2013. This Aerospace and Defense industry offer products and services in the system integration, technical services and solution and scientific engineering. SAIC strengths are their loyalty they have from their clients by proving their customers with innovative merchandise that put the company ahead of others in their industry, with management marketing teams improving services through services and merchandises increasing company growth. The distributors that the support the company provides the company supplies are better than their competition (A, 2012).
For one week every summer, the senior high youth at St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Roseville drop everything to venture somewhere in the United States on a service learning trip. Since I happen to attend that church, and I just so happen to be a senior high youth, I have joined these trips for three years running. Usually, we help out in soup kitchens, do some yard work, or visit homeless shelters. However, our trip during the summer of my junior year was destined to be different from the very beginning.
Beneficiaries called to ask me if I wanted to perform community service at a cathedral in Dallas, TX. I agreed because I like to volunteer in any event when it is needed. This event was called “Feed the Hunger,” which I signed up for and looked forward to because of my desire to lend a hand and assist the needy and unfortunate. At first, I thought this event was just one of those other community service opportunities that I am usually called to facilitate and volunteer my time. However, in the end, this occasion was a life-changing experience.
This essay is going to discuss the inquiry based approach to learning, and why it is a useful learning tool that promotes discovery, critical thinking and engaging in investigative techniques that allow learners to find solutions, sum up opinions give constructive feedback and gain insight into why an event happened. I will reflect on my participation from this, and what I learned that has compelled me to study towards becoming a social worker. Inquiry based learning [IBL] is a fact-finding process through which by curiosity displayed by a learner or a group it entices them to search for answers about the topic. Additionally, in a classroom environment, the teacher may ask an open-ended question that fascinates the class to want to look for
Strengths: As a student one of my strengths is organization. I can say I can keep my school materials and notebooks organized in a way that I and others can comprehend. The reason I can say I am organized is because, I have hardly ever had in the past or present any issues with trying to find homework or assignments because I always kept my materials for each class organized and in a place I could easily find. Another strength I have is social skills. I can believe that I communicate with others well in a group.
GraceKennedy (GK) is one of the Caribbean’s largest and most dynamic Food and Finance corporate entities started in Jamaica in 1922. The operations of GK span the areas of food processing and distribution, banking and finance, insurance, remittance services, agricultural inputs and building material retailing. Global Appearance GraceKennedy Foods is a division of the GraceKennedy Group and is responsible for the distribution of Grace Brands and Grace owned brands in over 40 countries. GK has 60 subsidiaries and associated companies across the Caribbean, The UK, Africa, North and Central America.