Community Service Projects
Guadeloupe
21 Days | Summer 2018
Community Service Projects
Guadeloupe 2018
- Taught two-to-three English classes a day for three-to-four days a week at the summer camp for kids at Etang Noir.
- Guadeloupe community service projects completed in partnership with local farming cooperative owner Audrey Colmar:
- Dug trenches and planted sugarcane.
- Cut back overgrown shrubs with machetes and cleaned up debris.
- Fed pigs, goats, chickens, ducks, and sheep.
- Constructed a chicken coop/slaughterhouse to supply restaurants run by APAEI, an organization that helps those with disabilities find work and opportunities.
- Added metal stabilizers to the foundation for hurricane-resistance.
- Used a drop saw and hand saws to cut wood for siding, roof and deck.
- Installed siding, roof and deck with hammers and drills.
- At the local community center:
- Repaired and painted rotting picnic table.
- Cut back overgrown plants with machetes and clippers, picked up litter and painted over graffiti.
- Repainted the basketball court and replaced the net.
- Rewired the fence on the soccer field.
- At the APAEI Ressourcerie, a second hand store, organized donated clothing and accessories
- At the Kaza’Sik restaurant, cleared overgrown trees and shrubs using chainsaws.
- Repainted exterior walls of the Maison de l’Indigo, a building destroyed by the 2017 hurricanes.
Team Guadeloupe
Leaders: Emily Ponten, Faryn Wooten-El, Alexandra Traynor, Gene Goldenfeld
Participants: Emma Fishbein, Abigail Forrester, Karlie Miller, Elizabeth Dailey, Elias Salcedo, Moussa Camara, Joshua Shields, Evelyn Wang, Gabriela Snyder, Jonathan Sayler, Lydia Maynor, Chloe Craig, Juliet Chi
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