By Riana Nolet | Director of Operations
This is the time of year when one class says goodbye (for now) and another class begins their year with Hands for a Bridge. For a look back at this wonderful year with HFB please read the latest HFB Newsletter produced by students from the 2014 class (attached).
Featured in the newsletter are reflections on the student's travel and the important work that followed. Upon their return students propose and complete Activist Projects to explore an aspect of their own community that needs social change; they are better equipped to do this work because of what they have learned from the dialog with their peers in Northern Ireland and South Africa. Below is an excerpt from the newsletter that discusses one of these projects:
Challenge Day by Chris Harris: Challenge day is an event based off of an MTV show called “if you really knew me”. It is an event during school hours where any student is welcome and students are encouraged to engage in conversation with people that they normally wouldn’t. It took place on June 4th in the little gym and lasted all day. We hope that through this event people will realize that they have more in common with people around them than they thought. Also we want them to realize that we are all more similar than we are different. We hope to accomplish these goals through targeted games and both small and large discussions. The event went very well and all of the participants felt better about the Roosevelt community after they left compared to when they came in. We were very happy that we attracted a wide arrange of people and we hope that this event will become an annual occurrence.
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