Activities

Reality Comes From Dreams

Project in SAR safe house

It’s been over 5 months. We used most of our times and efforts in Community Development subject. We tried to create happy weekends by providing playing materials for children at SAW Safe House because they had passed the weekends without any active activities and it creates some problems such as arguing or fighting for limited available playing materials.
Based on community voices, we wrote a proposal to Room To Grow to support the unparented children in SAW Safe House to get enough playing materials.
The donor, Room to Grow selected our proposal to support these unparented children at SAW Safe House. So, they agreed to implement our project.Moreover, we are going to provide some activities which base on our action plan. We will go and play with children by some playing materials and tell some stories that help their general knowledge. So it can improve their education and can create a better effective weekend. However, it will take every Saturday for 4 weeks between February and March. Before the implementation, another two students joined in our project.They are very helpful for us because they take some responsibilities as their own. Surely, we are going to face some problems without them. However, we bought some playing materials that didn’t include in our planning. Finally we believe that these materials can create and improve their education and weekends activities, as well. Reality Comes From Dreams All in all, this is the first time for us working in communities without any benefits but we got a lot of experiences by helping community. Obviously, we found out that helping other people without any expectation is better than paid jobs because we got inner peace after we saw our projects were done successfully and we got a chance to wear on the
communities shoes.

Improving Community To Learn
What have Wide Horizons’ (WH) student done for communities? The students have done many things for the communities as the school proposed to do. The students are introducing a community that they conduct a project in 2015-16 academic year. Karunar  (formerly known as Elpis) dormitory’s’ community was very fortunate as they accepted 3 projects continuously from Wide Horizons (WH) students writing proposal to Room to Grow. Previous years, they got 2 dormitories for boys’ and girls’ students and safely fences for both of dorms. Also this year, WH students could fulfil this community needs by applying their skills that learnt from their school. WH students’ researched the Karunar dorms’ problem which was started with floor. According to the students and teachers, the sickness were from wet floor was increasing twice every year. Also, students were uncomfortable with the insects which came alongwith the wet floor. For this reason, six of WH’s students wrote a proposal to Room to Grow to solve for those problem by laying tiles on the floor. As the results of hard learning and working, they were acceptedthis proposal to implement project at Karunar dorms.
To implement this project, WH’s students hired some workers for implementing project and students helped to lay cement and tiles on the floors. While they were conducting implementation, they faced many contingencies like there were no workers on the day which they were supported to be at work. However, they could manage every process by using their critical thinking and problem solving skills that they gain from WH school. WH school taught them to know the accountability for their individual responsibilities which also
can help this project to be accomplished perfectly.
All in all, WH’s students have learned many things from this project which is how to deal
with the community and different people. The students learn in WH school is not only for practicing but also to develop the communities. After studying in WH school, they believed that they will apply those kinds of skills that they learned from class and practical projects to help their society effectively.

 Project at Karunar dorm