Service Learning Project

I volunteered at the Activity Center for my Service Learning project. My duties were to watch the kids who participated in the after school program, play with them and help them with their home homework. I really enjoyed interacting with the African-American people and culture. I learned many things from the African-American population I worked with. I learned how the Activity Center staff teaches the after school kids good manners and behavior. I mentioned in one of my service learning journals that the staff was very strict and treated the kids like prisoners, but I came to the realization that maybe that is how they teach the kids discipline. I had the opportunity to be around all the Activity Center kids and interact with them. They were kids just like any other kids. Of course they are kids and sometimes they did misbehave but overall they were really great kids. I noticed that most of the boys want to be more independent of them, but they were such sweet kids.

The Activity Center center has been around since 1955, it was founded during the civil rights movement. I learned that the Activity Center has been dedicated to help families for many years. Corey, one of the volunteers I met there, went to the Activity Center as a kid. The statement on the Activity center states, “For decades the Community Center has served neighboring families, youth, seniors, and the Lincoln community with inclusive ‘social, cultural, education, employment and welfare’ services.” The Community center has been a refuge to many African-American families who have needed financial support through out the years.

The social issues that have affected the African-American race have been their descendants’ past. African-Americans, like...

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I really think that having the service learning-project in the Unity and Diversity class is great. In class we have talked about minorites and disadvantaged groups, and volunteering in the minority places has everything to do with our class. The suggestions I have for revising the requirements of the service-learning component in a future class would be to require more theories and concepts into our papers. I think you should require more terms in our papers, so that we look more into our books and notes. Other than adding more concepts into the paper I don’t think anything else should be changed.

Works Cited

Healey, J. F. (2011). Race, ethnicity, gender, and class: The sociology of group and change (5th ed.). Thousand Oaks, California: Pine Forge Press.