15-year-old donates babysitting money
At the young age of 15, Kerry Grove already has a strong commitment to giving back. The teenager and her parents, Louise and Keith Grove, sponsor a young boy named César from San Rafael, and Kerry uses her babysitting money to pay her half of the sponsorship. She and her parents, from Brookline, MA, traveled [...]
Playing with numbers
Mary Van Valin, a retired math education consultant from Traverse City, MI, spent several weeks volunteering her skills to conduct a series of math trainings with the education promoters of our school partnership initiative. The promoters were very appreciative of the training, saying they learned a lot of new games and activities for teaching math, [...]
Life skills hidden in arts and crafts
by Krista Lengacher, hospitality coordinator I love arts and crafts. Not the scrapbooky, kitchy cute kind of arts and crafts, but the useful, looks-like-they-could-be-store-bought kind of arts and crafts. It’s not very often that one has the opportunity to combine her hobby and her job, but I was lucky enough to be given that very [...]
