Service-Learning isa teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities. An exciting, hands-on approach to education, service-learning is taking place in a wide variety of settings: schools, universities, and community-based and faith-based organizations throughout the country. The core concept driving this educational strategy is that by combining service objectives and learning objectives, along with the intent to show measurable change in both the recipient and the provider of the service, the result is a radically-effective transformative method of teaching students. Community members, students, and educators everywhere are discovering that service-learning offers all its participants a chance to take part in the active education of its youth while simultaneously addressing the concerns, needs, and hopes of their community.
This national service learning program promotes the engagement of U.S. Latino/Hispanic college students as college campus organizers of in a national ‘Smart & Healthy’ education campaign with Cesar E. Chavez’s as its icon celebrating his legacy as an American civic leader devoted to improving the quality of life for the migrant/seasonal farmworker community. The four basic event objectives are to promote a) health education, b) health careers, c) civic engagement, and d) save lives!The campaign challenges each student organizer to coordinate a successful donor recruitment campaign culminating in a health education event featuring a 1- or 2-day campus blood drive to be held on or close to March 31st to celebrate Cesar E. Chavez’s Birthday.
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