Students Complete Service Education Project

On September 8, 2014, the students of Brevard Middle School’s seventh-grade class began working on their community service projects. The assignment was to work for at least seven hours, doing a service to benefit the community.

Several people volunteered for more than ten hours, and a few worked for over twenty. Some students volunteered at The Bread of Life, preparing food and packing boxes. Other students worked at Free Rein, teaching disabled children how to ride and caring for the horses. A few students gave their time to the Full Moon Farms, raking leaves and learning about wolf-dogs. Others volunteered at the Friends for Life Forever farm, helping senior, abused, and disabled animals.

Still others worked at The Transylvania County Animal Shelter, feeding and grooming animals, and being yanked around by very high-energy dogs. Students also worked at other charities, and some students helped out in the community by keeping up community gardens, tutoring younger children, helping out at church, and raking leaves. One student helped a physics professor at Brevard College, testing materials and cleaning up after classes. Another planted flowers on the sidewalks downtown.

Lessons learned from service include thankfulness and the power of “paying it forward.”

All in all, this project was a very fun experience and more than a few students are going to continue volunteering at these charities.

 

North Carolina School Boards AssociationStudents Complete Service Education Project