Blog Challenge Day #6
I interact with kids in my community on a daily basis. If I were to leave my compound (house
and surrounding wall and gate), it would be odd for me to go even a couple
minutes without at least seeing one or two kids running around. Sometimes I don’t even need to leave my
compound because I will run into the seven year old who lives on the compound.
I wanted to take the opportunity to use this blog challenge
to focus on talking about the youth in my community rather than one specific
person because in some ways, the youth have had the largest impact on my Peace
Corps experience. The reason for
this is because of all of the people I have worked with in my community, I feel
felt the most successful with them.
During my two years of service, I have met with my set group
of secondary school students with the occasional new students. Whenever I have met with students, I
have worked with them on their English skills and helping them to have a good
(or at least better) understanding of what health is and the importance of good
health and healthy habits.
I also had the opportunity to take two of my students to a
camp during the summer of 2015 in which they learned a lot about things such as
proper hand sanitation, proper nutrition and gardening, and sex education. It was such a rewarding experience
seeing the growth they had throughout that week.
I was also able to do a project in my community with a large
group of students teaching them about the importance of recycling. For this particular project, we made
what is called an Earth bench. For
this bench, we collected plastic bottles and trash throughout the community. We filled the plastic bottles with the
trash. Then we got cement and then
we put down a layer of bottles filled with trash and then a layer of
cement. Layer by layer, we did
this until the bench was finished.
I loved that by the end of the project I was able to see the understanding
the students had of the importance of recycling and the creative things you can
do by reusing resources.
Then there is the seven year old who lives on my
compound. It has been amazing to
see the growth in him over the past two years in his understanding of the world
and even in his improvement in his English skills.
The kids and students are a majority of the people that have
had the greatest impact on me throughout my Peace Corps experience. Not only have I seen growth and
improvement through so many of them throughout my two years in my community,
they have also had a positive impact on me. I have loved working with them because I see such great
potential in so many of them. With
this potential, I can see the extremely positive impact on their country in the
future. I am so glad that I was
able to work with the amazing students that I worked with and I am so excited
to see what the future has in store for them.
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