Gabriela
My project was incorporating the Best Buddies program for a fun event with some of the students of Saint Mark’s. The Best Buddies program is a program where people with disabilities integrate in workplaces and schools for a get-together. The event consisted of some ice-breakers, a quick pizza break, and then we worked on a mural that is now hanging in our school cafeteria. This was a great opportunity for the students that participated, and I could tell that the buddies who attended, and the students had a lot of fun and made fast friends.
This project was to spread awareness about people with special needs. Along with fighting discrimination and alienation, and gives people the opportunity to make a new friend. I achieved this purpose by doing this event, friends were made, and everyone had a great time.
Overall, I am very glad that this project came through so well. But, it was very difficult to plan and get the two groups together, but it was worth it. We even have a memento from that wonderful day that is now hanging on the SMES cafeteria wall.