Community Service: Ten Hours

For my 10 hours of community service I have been involved with “CCMP” or “Community Connections Mentoring Program” held at Montclair State. Every Tuesday night for an hour and a half, students grades K-12 come from Newark and we run a mentoring program in which we all talk about and discuss things pertaining to education. From what I understand, the program used to be a tutoring program, however they did not have enough students to tutor each subject and so now we focus primarily on encouraging students with their education and helping them with anything they may be struggling with in school. My group consists of two 8th grade girls. Both struggle in math and so we have been trying to come up with fun ways to help them study. We also talk a lot about college and what they want to do with their lives. The one girl wants to be a fashion designer and design her own perfume, which we explained that math could really be helpful in doing so. We have a lot of fun each week learning about each other and incorporating education within our discussions and activities. The program runs for 6 weeks, and also has an additional two weeks worth of training and orientation.

In addition to the mentoring program, I also bought a Thanksgiving dinner for a family in need. The church I am currently attending collected Thanksgiving dinners for families in need, and then delivered those dinners to the families right before Thanksgiving. I believe we had about 50 dinners all together, which was a pretty good accomplishment considering there are only about 20 people in this new church.