Monday, July 16, 2012

Speed Bumps and Solutions

Diamond Gregory    

Out of all four weeks of being in the Summer Service Partnership, Wednesday and Thursday (July 11 & 12) were the toughest days ever. As a group we hit a hug bump in terms of our ideas and the way our projects for the community should go. The big group asked a lot of questions that our group (team Greater Grand Crossing) could not yet answer. So Thursday my team and I went back to the drawing board to reconstruct all of our projects. Prior to that, we attended a meeting with the head of the Youth Center, Ms. Ayoke, who gave us a lot of resources to go to for each one of our ideas. 

One of the resources she suggested was Uplift, a program ran by Ms. Thompson, which is basically a fitness program for seniors. This goes hand-in-hand with the senior walk idea we had to get senior active. The Legacy program the Youth Center is holding will also be a good resource for our Senior Check-In idea. We’re thinking that we can use the students in this program to help us fill the slots so that students and seniors can work together one-on-one. Therefore, the meeting our group plan together at noon was for us to basically put each resource Ms. Ayoke suggested with one of our projects. At the end of the day, I felt confident that our community project will go extremely well. 


1 comment:

  1. Love that the speed bumps can be navigated over safely, and you keep moving forward in a direction that feels right for you.

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