The Island School in the Bahamas serves a diverse group of Bahamian and international students. Part of the campus includes The Elementary Learning Center (ELC), which is a unique school for children aged 3 to 10. While at the Island School, I mentored a young student at the ELC every week, and assisted with a hands-on learning approach that encourages creativity and critical thinking as well as an awareness of the world around them.
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In my local community, this fall, I volunteer with meal delivery as part of the Youth Corps at Kids In Crisis, a non-profit organization founded in 1978 that provides shelter, counseling and educational programs for children, teens, and families in Connecticut.
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In the remote village of El Silencio, Costa Rica, I worked with a group of student volunteers as part of the Putney Student Travel Service Program to build a walkway for a church. For a week, we mixed and laid concrete in order to facilitate easier accessibility to the church for the older villagers.
