One of the things for which St. John Fisher College is known is community service. A series of stories written earlier this semester by students in the Feature Writing class focused on projects around the campus in which Fisher students put their time and talents into such service.
Amanda Carpenter described the activities of SWAV, short for Students With A Vision, which emphasizes service in the local communities such as city schools.
Chelsea Yaeger and Stevie Goulette both investigated service work overseas, including a trip that nursing students took to Kenya and also a service trip to work with poor children in Jamaica. With photos provided by some of their sources, they also compiled photo gallery slide shows of both the Kenya trip and the Jamaica experience.
An English Department class took on the service learning task of helping older people learn about Facebook. Maricatherine Garcea presented that story, along with a slide show about the project narrated by one of the students in the class, Emily Sobilo.
Finally, students from various areas of the college volunteered to spend time at Bethany House, a refuge for women facing difficulties in their lives. Nicoletta Persi both wrote about the program and also collected some video interviews of students who did the volunteering to get their firsthand impressions.
(Note: Individual links to the text stories can be found further down in the blog, but this updated summary was created to re-post those links along with the affiliated multimedia presentations.)
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