The young people of the Cedar Valley are caring, creative, and conscientious in their actions to make this community a better place. Our service learning classes are focusing on a variety of projects. The Janesville middle school students are being successful in raising money to help build a walking bridge that will connect two sides of the town. Peet Junior High students in Cedar Falls are crafting projects to deal with the issue of hunger in the community while another class is designing a project dealing with animal abuse.
The home schooled young people in our community are helping the hungry and homeless at the Salvation Army, making blankets, and knitting hats.
This semester has added two classes at the Waterloo Educational and Behavior Center (WEBC) to our service learning program. One class are beginning an awareness project about STD’s and will produce posters and public service announcements. The other class will work with the hunger issue in our community as will a class of Waterloo West High students.
Three Do Something Clubs now exist at the Boys and Girls Clubs at the main location, at North Cedar in Cedar Falls and at Poyner in Waterloo. We are busy at each site building teamwork and learning about giving back to each other.
For more information on Service-Learning contact Jean Seeland at 272-2087 or Jean_Seeland@vccv.org.
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