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Mara, the marvelous graduate assistant, will be sharing her thoughts on service-learning.

International Service Learning teaching self-esteem  

11/11/2013

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The International Service Learning Badili Mtizamo (Change the way you see things) in Tanzania aims at educating girls and boys about gender equality, leadership, and health. According to the program director, girls and boys must learn together to relate to each other in a more equal basis. In a country where 33% of the women have reported to have been subject to physical, domestic violence and 6% of them have reported to have been physically forced to have sex before the age 18, the program has identified a strong community need, which is the improvement of the girls’ life quality. Faculty and students engaged in the program work together with two high schools to improve girls’ self-esteem, self-confidence, self-respect, self-worth, as well as to educate the boys about the girls’ right to say “no”, and the fathers’ responsibility with pregnant girls.  

Check out the documentary of the program: http://umanitoba.ca/student/ics/wwise/tanzania.html


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From kids with love and social responsibility

11/11/2013

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Parents and teachers who want to motivate their children and students to engage in Community Service will find this video very helpful. It presents several different ideas for Community Service projects which kids can develop.   Community Service may be an excellent opportunity for children to develop self-esteem, and grow as people. It is also the only opportunity many children will have for developing civic responsibility. The benefits for the community are also manifold: Community Service meets community needs through supporting families, improving schools, supporting youth, and beautifying the community, just to name a few. It meets needs which would probably not be taken care of by other institutions. Check out the video in the following link:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZXoIIWSCtE&feature=youtu.be 


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    Mara Barbosa is a PhD student in Applied Linguistics and graduate assistant in the Center for Instructional Excellence at Purdue University. Her passions include heritage language maintenance and service learning. 

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