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Written by Justin Saathoff
When the Service Learning class first joined Free State this year, students were assigned places to volunteer. However, as students have spent many hours volunteering, they were presented the opportunity to design their own service project.The class has now taken steps in giving back to the school community and beyond. Students have divided up into groups to plan service projects which benefit the people of Lawrence.
Students were allowed to design projects from five different categories and then implement them with a volunteer force according to senior Harrison Schieb.
Some of the projects students have planned include hanging out with kids who are in the ESL class (English for Speakers of Foreign Languages), providing lawn service for senior citizens, running a soccer clinic for young children and a salon night for abused women.
The guidelines for the project were to “be ourselves, show love and work hard” according to senior Stephen Jordan
Most projects require extensive planning to get volunteers and companies to donate services and supplies. For the salon night, leaders of the project had to find not only a salon to donate services and facilities, but also babysitters for the women who have children. Students sometimes struggled to pull together certain aspects of their projects.
”It was difficult to get volunteers and people to sign up senior citizens,” Stephen said.
The project that benefits senior citizens has been ongoing for the past three weeks and concludes on Saturday. During these work days they spend time raking leaves and shoveling snow. Normal work days begin at 8 a.m. and last about three to four hours.
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