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Children’s Needs & Education

Children’s Needs & Education. Brenda Sandoval Tristan Solano Matt Almaraz Kent Ratliff Brandon Obregon Cindy Bugarin. Finding a Need. First, we wanted to work with animals We were unable to do this We worked with children. San Antonio’s Need.

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Children’s Needs & Education

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  1. Children’s Needs & Education Brenda Sandoval Tristan Solano Matt Almaraz Kent Ratliff Brandon Obregon Cindy Bugarin

  2. Finding a Need • First, we wanted to work with animals • We were unable to do this • We worked with children

  3. San Antonio’s Need San Antonio has the highest number of high school drop outs in Texas and in the nation

  4. Current Events Organizations such as CRIN and One Laptop per Child are working globally to help solve the problem of underprivileged children and children’s needs and education.

  5. Interviews We interviewed Grace Harden, the volunteer coordinator at urban connections. “The community garden will be feeding people for years and the bookshelf provides storage space for more books, so that will help the children to learn”

  6. Global Scale

  7. The percentage of children enrolled in the last grade of primary education who continue to the secondary level the following year, 2001/02

  8. Community Services

  9. Children’s Museum “where kids play to learn and adults learn to play”

  10. Urban Connection-San Antonio is a holistic, faith-based, human and community development organization. "Building Genuine Community, One Person At A Time!"

  11. Our Plan We wanted to: remove the tree stump Give a bookshelf Build a Community garden

  12. Preparing for the Project We had to set up volunteer support, get tools and supplies. We did a needs assessment for Urban Connections and designed our project to fit those needs.

  13. Impact

  14. Personal Reflections

  15. Special Thanks Grace Harden: Volunteer Coordinator Robin Wilkinson: Master Gardener Alfonso Santos: Built the Bookshelf Our Parents: For dealing with us Robin Wilkinson Grace Harden

  16. Works Cited • "Urban Connections." Urban Connections. 2008. Urban Connections . 15 Apr 2009 <http://www.urbanconnection-sa.org/>. • "How many children in Africa." UNESCO Institute for Statistics. 01/2006. UNESCO Institute for Statistics. 15 Apr 2009 <http://www.uis.unesco.org/TEMPLATE/pdf/EducGeneral/UIS_Fact%20Sheet_2006_02_SecAfr_EN.pdf>. • "San Antonio Children's Museum." SAKIDS.org. 2005. San Antonio Children's Museum. 15 Apr 2009 <http://www.sakids.org/>.

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