Students Put Course Work into Action with Outreach to the Needy
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Courtesy of the News and Record |
Students in Laura Parrish’s “Organizational Communication and Teamwork” class put course work into action by helping people in need the week of June 22.
The justice and policy studies class combines weeks of course work with five intense days of classes and community service. Students complete required reading and papers analyzing and applying justice and leadership theories.
The students contributed several hundred dollars to fund a series of outreach efforts, and multiplied their resources by obtaining discounts and donations from local businesses.
In about six hours one day, the 24 students:
- Purchased and gave away biscuit sandwiches to people waiting at the social services building on Maple Drive
- Collected donated restaurant gift cards to share with people in the waiting room at a local hospital
- Purchased and distributed small gifts to children living with their mothers at a local halfway house
- Distributed bottled water to people downtown
- Purchased hot dogs for several dozen people at a park
And one evening, the students provided a spaghetti dinner for more than 100 homeless people downtown.
“It taught me that a little bit of effort and a little bit of sweat can help so many people,” Melissa Bunn ’12 told the News & Record.
On an annual basis, Guilford students contribute more than 60,000 hours of service to the community though academic and co-curricular service learning programs.
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July 1, 2009