Sesenta estudiantes del programa Class Afloat (“Clase Flotante) del West Island College International llegarán a Samaná para realizar servicios comunitarios durante el transcurso de su semestre en el mar que empezará en Puerto Limón, Costa Rica, y concluirá en Kristiansand, Noruega. La visita a Samaná está siendo coordinada por la Fundación Mahatma Gandhi and his co-chief executives Annette Snyder and Joseph Bourget.
The boat will arrive on Saturday afternoon February 12 at the Bay of Samaná and the next morning, the students accompanied by teachers and staff, receive the hospitality and recognition by the Mayor of Samaná , Mr. Miguelín Bezi in a tasty breakfast at the Hotel Bahia Principe Cayacoa academic managers will also receive a welcome and recognition from the town of Samana in the case of the first time this unique academic program touches Dominican lands.
The bulk of the service experience will take place in Las Terrenas, where they arrived after visiting the waterfalls of El Limon on Sunday morning.'s First community service will be held in Las Terrenas same Sunday February 13 and will consist of cleaning up the mouth of the Rio Las Terrenas and sections of the beach. Another plant trees.
At the end of the first task of service will receive a delicious dinner and a plaque from the hands of municipal trustee, José Alexis Martinez, who also will thank you for choosing Las Terrenas occur as the place where most cultural learning experience and community service. The event will take place in Punta Poppy into the sunset.
On Monday 14 and Tuesday morning, 15 students will perform various activities on campus at the primary school in Las Terrenas including painting sections of buildings for classrooms, creating a school vegetable garden and build a children playground in the new area of \u200b\u200bpre-primary education. and perform a general cleaning in the Library sponsored by the Foundation Anacaona Mahatma Gandhi, one of a class in the town and north of the country. Finally, student groups will paint homes of families or individuals in need. All expenses for the activities of service were donated by the students themselves and a Class Afloat good faith contribution to the community.
After these activities students in Las Terrenas Samana return to town on Tuesday afternoon for sanitation activities in the Barrio Wilmore, under the direction of municipal trustee. Once this work will return to his ship to sail the next day heading to the Bahamas. After The Bahamas Class Afloat visit the Azores Islands of Portugal, La Coruna in Spain, Belgium Oestende, Stockholm, Sweden, Lubeck in Germany and completed her semester at sea coming to the Port of Kristiansand, Norway.
According to this educational experience has been called "Culture and service, with the intention of providing students and local participants a genuine intercultural experience and service in two of the major communities in the province. This experience corresponds to the theme of the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation, "Global Vision, Local Development and a continuation of the experiences provided more than 170 volunteers from 24 countries in 5 years of its existence the Foundation has brought to Las Terrenas. The Web site of the Foundation is http://fundacionmahatmagandhi. Com . The organization depends 100% volunteer work and receives no funds from any state agency, international or domestic.
In Las Terrenas Class Afloat students work shoulder to shoulder with young men and women of the Frente Independiente de Young of Las Terrenas (FINJOLAT) and the Youth Ministry in the Catholic Church. Other entities interested in participating can make direct contact Joseph Bourget 809-371-0986 before 7 February when completed technical preparations for the visit. Students will be housed primarily in homes and those who wish to offer accommodation for 2-4 people can contact Annette at 809-496-0245 .
Students from West Island College International-Class Afloat maintain a rigorous academic program that also includes leadership, community service and personal development. The institution and the community of Lunenburg, in Nova Scotia, Canada, help to maintain a spirit of courage, responsibility and global citizenship in order to produce learners sensitive practices and global sustainability.
Founded in 1984, Class Afroat offers young people around the world the opportunity of a challenging academic program and practices of sustainability within the confines of a ship that serves as a microcosm of the planet. Information about this novel program appears in http://www.classafloat.com .
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