electrify your community with service
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2015 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION
Electrify your Community with Service
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* Melody Dobrinin (Rotaractor)
* Bern Igoche (Rotarian)
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• Understand how to assess and evaluate successful projects
• Go over a service project from community assessment to celebration
• Know how to plan to implement a new service project into your club.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
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• What makes an awesome service project?
• Exemplar Service Project
• Plan our own project
Presentation Plan
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Time to split into groups
(with people you don’t know);)
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What makes an awesome service project?
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What makes an awesome service project?
QUESTION
• What makes a successful project?
- Think of a successful project- What made that project
successful- How do you measure success
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What makes an awesome service project?
DISCUSSION
How do you measure success?
- The four way test- Sustainable and measurable
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What makes an awesome service project?
DISCUSSION
This is what we are aiming for!
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What makes an awesome service project?
QUESTIONHow can we ensure the 4 way test is followed in every project we do?-Is it the truth?-Is it fair to all concerned?-Will it build good will and foster better friendships?-Is it beneficial to all concerned?
How can we make projects sustainable and measurable
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What makes an awesome service project?
DISCUSSION
Is it the truth?- Is everyone aware of what
they are getting into?
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What makes an awesome service project?
DISCUSSION
Is it fair to all concerned?Is it beneficial to all concerned?
- Has one person done all the work?
- Have you taken away a local’s job?
- Are the scarves you are selling made
through slave labour?
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What makes an awesome service project?
DISCUSSION
Will it build good will and foster better friendships?
- Has one person done all the work?
- Does someone feel unfairly treated?
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What makes an awesome service project?
DISCUSSION
Sustainability- Community involvement- Do they really want it
Don’t give people what you want.Find out what they want.
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Assessing a Successful Service Project
• Determine what is needed in your community- Ask club members and families- Ask other community groups- Talk with community officials- Find out what types of projects have and have not been done in the recent past.
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What makes an awesome service project?
DISCUSSION
Measurable- S: Specific- M: Measureable- A: Achievable- R: Realistic- T: Time-oriented
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What makes an awesome service project?
We’ve got a sustainable and measurable project…
Followed the four way test…
AWESOME!
What’s next?
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Exemplar Service Project!
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Exemplar Service Project
• Pick a project by determining needs• Plan your project
- Sustainable and measurable- 4 way test
• Publicity• Carry it out• Reflect and write it down!• Celebrate
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Model of a Community Service Project
• Fresh Drinking Water/Fish Pond Project for Fatima Girls High School in Aidogodo – Okpokwu Nigeria
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Model of a Community Service Project
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Model of a Community Service Project
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Model of a Community Service Project
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Model of a Community Service Project
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Model of a Community Service Project
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Model of a Community Service Project
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Model of a Community Service Project
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Benefits of the Project
• The students will have opportunity to acquire knowledge in aquaculture.
• There will be improvement in the dietary status of students of the school, which will also extend to families in their community.
• The revenue from the sale of fish will enable the school authority provide other facilities in the school that were hitherto hampered by lack of funds.
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Benefits of the Project
DEBRIEF
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Benefits of the Project
Reflection and Debrief• 4 Way Test
- Is it the truth - Is it fair to all concerned- Will it build good will and foster
better friendships- Is it beneficial to all concerned
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Benefits of the Project
Reflection and Debrief
• Sustainable?• Measurable?
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Let’s make our own projects!
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Group Exercise
Planning• 4 way test• Sustainable: Community
environment• Measurable: SMART goals
PublicityCarry out the projectHow will you debrief?How will you celebrate?
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Group Exercise
• Let’s share our responses
• Comments?
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• Understand how to assess and evaluate successful projects
• Go over a service project from community assessment to celebration
• Know how to plan to implement a new service project into your club.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
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Steps for a Successful Project
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Pick a project by determining needs
• Plan your project - Sustainable and measurable- 4 way test
• Publicity
• Carry it out
• Reflect/debrief and write it down!
• Celebrate
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Make it happen!
Don’t forget to be awesome!