| Notre
Dame de Namur University for their Guadalajara Project |
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Guadalajara Summer Service Learning Program is an exciting and challenging
program in which NDNU students, staff and faculty collaborate with
a parish on the outskirts of Guadalajara to provide two weeks of
summer camp for approximately 180 under-privileged children ages
6-12. The camp provides a highly structured program of arts and
crafts, group activities and games, four hours per day for five
days each week. NDNU students do all the planning and teaching of
the classes. Mexican teenagers from the parish help by serving as
aides. NDNU students stay with local neighborhood host
families with whom they share three meals a day and truly make
lasting personal bonds. Among the benefits of the program are:
learning to work together as a team under unfamiliar and challenging
circumstances, cultural and linguistic immersion in inner-city
Mexico, and the personal growth that comes from community service.
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