A Snapshot of our Trip...
For one
week during March of 2014, ten students from Missouri State University plan on
heading to Dallas, TX to spend their Spring Break working with underprivileged
children. These ten students were brought together to go on this trip through
an organization called Bear Breaks. They were chosen for this trip based on
their passion for volunteer and helping others, as well as their specific
desire to work with and improve the lives of children. While in Dallas, they
will be working to put on a camp for a group of kids at Wesley-Rankin community
center in West Dallas. The camp will last for three days, with each day
focusing on a specific issue to help these children grow into productive and
successful adults. The three themes are the importance of school, healthy
living and fitness, and self-worth/goals. Each day we will plan several
activities for the children to do based on that days theme.
The reason that
we are so excited to be working with Wesley-Ranking Community Center is that
they are located in an area where we feel that we can do the most good. To help
show this, I have borrowed a few statistics about West Dallas from Wesley-Rankin’s
website:
- “$34,000 was the average household income. (This compares to $64,000 for the City of Dallas.)”
- “18 percent of households were headed by a single mother with children. (In the City of Dallas, 8 percent of households were headed by a single mother with children.)”
- “For persons age 25 years and older: 35.3% dropped out of school by the 8th grade, 65.6% did not complete high school or a GED, 34.3% have a high school diploma or GED, 2.3% have a bachelor’s degree.”
For more information on Wesley-Rankin Community Center, here
is a link to their website:
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