“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” John Bunyan
Over the past few years, our students have participated in Service Learning Projects. The idea of Service Learning is to have students learn about the needs of other people and communities and then participate in an activity to help fill the need. This anonymous poem sums up best how Service Learning impacts students:
Tell me and I forget
Teach me and I remember
Involve me and I learn
Our past projects include:
(Oct., 2018) 300 books were donated by students, parents and staff for the first library at St. Bakhita.
(Oct., 2016) 600 t-shirts were again collected for the St. Bakhita School in Uganda.
(April, 2015) T-shirts were collected from students, parents and staff for the St. Bakhita School in Uganda. Charlie Roscoe, a
former Yarmouth resident who runs a non-profit called Schools for Refugees brought the tee shirts to the school.
(April, 2014) $772.00 was raised for the St. Bakhita school in Uganda through the school's spring photo sessions. The money was
used to buy much needed school supplies.
(April, 2013) 600 t-shirts were collected for the St Bakhita School in Uganda.
(March, 2012) $1100.00 was raised through the generous support of the students, staff, parents and members of the community for the
(Nov., 2011) $730.00 was raised through a coin collection for Yarmouth’s local food pantry. YCAN Homepage.
(Nov., 2010) $1500.00 was raised through a coin collection to purchase water filtration kits for Haiti. Waves 4 Water.
(March, 2009) $1000.00 was raised through the sale of Guatemalan friendship bracelets to support the Guatemalan Literacy Project
(April, 2008) $1000.00 was raised through the sale of bracelets with the logo - Languages Matter! to buy school supplies for a new school
in Kessana, Mali in Africa.
(Dec., 2007) 300 Beanie Babies were collected by students in grades 5-8 and sent to an AIDS safe haven for orphans in South Africa
(Jan., 2007) School supplies and backpacks were collected for the children of Safe Passage in Guatemala.
(March, 2006) $2000.00 was raised through a dance and donations to pay for the salary of a teacher in La Romana, The Dominican Republic.
(March, 2004) Spanish students wrote, illustrated and sent their own children's books to Safe Passage in Guatemala
(Dec., 2004) $500.00 was raised through a school wide bake sale for medical supplies and a teacher's scholarship in La Romana,
The Dominican Republic.