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Boy’s & Girl’s Club CHA Group. Members. Jason Owusu , Middle College, Senior Fely Sita , CSU East Bay, Post Baccalaureate Victoria Quarshie, CSU East Bay, Post Baccalaureate Jermelle Newman, CSU East Bay, Post Baccalaureate Nneka Anyanwu , CSU East Bay, Post Baccalaureate
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Members • Jason Owusu, Middle College, Senior • FelySita, CSU East Bay, Post Baccalaureate • Victoria Quarshie, CSU East Bay, Post Baccalaureate • Jermelle Newman, CSU East Bay, Post Baccalaureate • NnekaAnyanwu, CSU East Bay, Post Baccalaureate • GelilaMehari, Oakland Tech, Junior • Chase Goldberg, Oakland Tech, Sophomore • SoukeynaSeck, College of Alameda, Sophomore
Community Site • Liason: Scedric Jackson • Address: 920 24th Street. Oakland, CA 94607 • This site is a youth based community center with a 99% African American population including kids ages 6-18 years old. • This center focuses on serving underprivileged communities and being a place that young kids can go to after schoolfor such services as tutoring and mentoring. • This center keeps youth encouraged and helps educate them about making positive choiceswhile their young .
Community Service Project • Twoday presentation on the topic: Personal Hygiene • Foursubtopics: Cleanliness, Nutrition, Grooming, & Puberty • Participants were in groups forpart of the presentation based on subtopics. • Audience was active in presentation (powerpoint) discussions (Puberty). • Mini presentations by individual groups on their nutrition icebreaker activity. • Question session was conducted at the end to answer any questions kids had submitted to the “question box.”
What We Learned:Our participants were open to discuss the topic at hand. They were motivated to share their ideas.The kids were familiar with most of the basic ideas of our topic. Benefits:We made connections with the kids. We all got the opportunity to practice public speaking.We were able to be involved in a community close to us.
Teamwork • As a group, we worked well together as we were open to each others’ ideas. • This presentation gave us various perspectives on how to work with other individuals. • Everyone was able to contribute to the presentation. • Our communication level could use some improvement. • As a whole, we could have been more assertive in completing our tasks.
We were able to work with various people in order to achieve a common goal! It is important to focus on serving and understanding our communities so that when we become medical doctors, we are able to better serve the individuals we encounter.