{"id":2743,"date":"2019-09-17T07:01:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T14:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/?p=2743"},"modified":"2019-11-19T13:22:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T21:22:01","slug":"generation-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/generation-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Generation Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Student Contributor -A. Bonnington
\nGeneration Alive is a program that brings awareness to students in the schools to make a difference in the world. Their mission statement is: Generation Alive empowers youth to compassionately engage the needs of their community through action and service. Their goal is to help the students elevate the quality of life in their communities.<\/p>\n

\"\"The website does a good job of breaking down all their components. This organization should be brought into the schools and classrooms because they follow six steps to make students active in their community and responsive to those needs. They get interns, work with an action team at the school, the action team participates in the assembly talking about what they have learned about the needs in their community and encouraging their peers to be involved, then each student is challenged to spend 4 weeks raising money to achieve a school-wide goal and then they participate in the service project. There are 2 different service projects, the first one is the Something to Eat challenge where the students help package food which are then sent to food banks. The other challenge is the Defend Free which challenges students to respond to human rights issues\u00a0by packing bags filled with basic necessities for those in need.<\/p>\n

\"\"They could partner with this organization through their school. The organization came to my school and my students had an opportunity to participate in the assembly. Then they were sent to do fundraising for 4 weeks. Then GA will come back and the students will have the opportunity to package food and watch it be taken away in a truck and delivered to food banks. In the classroom during fundraising, we had a big class jar and students brought their donations and we put it in the class jar and the students are able to watch their jar get fuller and fuller. Also allowing your students to participate in the packaging of food later so they are a part of the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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