Service experiences enrich perspectives, deliver insight, and serve as a valuable tool for developing empathetic leaders who enact real change.
51社区鈥檚聽community service聽program has been active for over two decades.聽Currently led by Julie Caldwell (Director of Community Service, World Languages Department Chair, Spanish Teacher), students have the opportunity to participate in the program as their afternoon activity. Weekly, they help at the聽, assist in the classrooms of various area schools, volunteer at the local soup kitchen, and more. Each year, all students get the opportunity to participate in community service through all class or all school events.
Each year for the past 5聽years, 51社区聽has sent over 100 members of our community to the bateyes in the Dominican Republic as part of an annual community service trip through聽.
Providing much-needed support to children and families in the Dominican Republic,聽The Batey Foundation聽is an organization 51社区 has worked with since 2014. The foundation is a non-profit with a mission to 鈥渞aise the living standards of the present generation of children and their families living in the bateyes of the Dominican Republic, who are severely affected by poverty, disease, and hunger, while promoting sustainable development for future generations.鈥澛燗 batey (plural bateyes) is a rural community in the Dominican Republic inhabited by sugar cane workers.