Interdisciplinary Service-Learning Project

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Interdisciplinary Service-Learning
Project Helping the People of Soufriere, St. Lucia
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• Summer 2009
• Summer Enrichment Leadership Program
• Mr. Del Vecchios involvement
• Recognizing the need
• Suggestion to Mr. Sinagra
• Canevin launches

Shoes for Soufriere
St. Lucia Project Background
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• 1800 miles from Miami FL
• 23 miles long, 13 miles wide
• 168,000 people

St. Lucia The Country
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• Capital is Castries
• Ownership of island transferred
• between British and French 14 times
• Former slave colony
• Independent in 1979
• Part of British Commonwealth

St. Lucia The Country
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• Official language is English
• Language spoken in homes is Patois
• Predominately Roman Catholics (95)
• Obeah, an African religion
• Public school teach religion as part of school
  day
• Median age is 27 years old
• 2/3 of island is less than 30 years old
• 30 of 21 year olds or younger are unemployed

St. Lucia The People
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• Major industry is tourism
• Local people are fishermen
• Extraordinary crafts
• Dependence on sea

St. Lucia The People
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St. Lucia The People
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St. Lucia The People
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• 3 schools in Soufriere
• Service-learning introduced in 2009
• No formal leadership training in schools
• No 4-year college in St Lucia
• Sir Arthur Lewis Community College
• National Skills Development Training Center

St. Lucia The Kids
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St. Lucia The Kids
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St. Lucia The School
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St. Lucia The School
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St. Lucia Soufriere Town
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St. Lucia Soufriere Town
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St. Lucia Soufriere Town
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St. Lucia The Beauty
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St. Lucia The Beauty
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St. Lucia The Beauty
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St. Lucia The Beauty
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• Serve on the Steering Committee
• Coordinates project with Mr. Del Vecchio
• Serve on another committee
• Publicity and Public Relations
• Transportation
• Sorting and Storage
• Packaging and Shipping
• Encourage your parents to get involved
• Donate new and gently used shoes
• Spread the word!

How Can YOU Help?
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• Shoes for whom?
• Children
• Adults
• Senior Citizens
• Types of shoes?
• Athletic
• Sandals
• Dress shoes
• Practical shoes
• Work boots

How Can YOU Help?
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• Teachers
• Include a service-learning project about St
  Lucia,
• poverty, other related topic in your class
• Students
• Sign up for a committee in G214
• Parents
• Help with various student committees
• Other Community Members
• Donate shoes, transportation, PR, printing costs

How Can YOU Help?
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• Members of I CAN
• Soufriere Foundation
• Bishop Canevin Administration and Board
• Diocese of Pittsburgh
• Department of Professional Studies at
• Slippery Rock University

Special Thanks to..