boy’s & girl’s club cha group. members jason owusu, middle college, senior fely sita, csu...
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Members
Jason Owusu, Middle College, Senior
Fely Sita, CSU East Bay, Post Baccalaureate
Victoria Quarshie, CSU East Bay, Post Baccalaureate
Jermelle Newman, CSU East Bay, Post Baccalaureate
Nneka Anyanwu, CSU East Bay, Post Baccalaureate
Gelila Mehari, Oakland Tech, Junior
Chase Goldberg, Oakland Tech, Sophomore
Soukeyna Seck, College of Alameda, Sophomore
Community Site• Liason: Scedric Jackson• Address: 920 24th Street.
Oakland, CA 94607• This site is a youth based
community center with a 99% African American population including kids ages 6-18 years old.
• This center focuses on serving underprivileged communities and being a place that young kids can go to after school for such services as tutoring and mentoring.
• This center keeps youth encouraged and helps educate them about making positive choices while their young .
Community Service Project • Two day presentation on the
topic: Personal Hygiene• Four subtopics: Cleanliness,
Nutrition, Grooming, & Puberty• Participants were in groups for
part of the presentation based on subtopics.
• Audience was active in presentation (powerpoint) discussions (Puberty).
• Mini presentations by individual groups on their nutrition icebreaker activity.
• Question session was conducted at the end to answer any questions kids had submitted to the “question box.”
What We Learned:Our participants were open to discuss the topic at hand.
They were motivated to share their ideas.The kids were familiar with most of the basic ideas of our
topic.
Benefits:We made connections with the kids.
We all got the opportunity to practice public speaking.We were able to be involved in a community close to us.
Teamwork
• As a group, we worked well together as we were open to each others’ ideas.
• This presentation gave us various perspectives on how to work with other individuals.
• Everyone was able to contribute to the presentation.
• Our communication level could use some improvement.
• As a whole, we could have been more assertive in completing our tasks.