We need young leaders with passion, empathy, innovative ideas, and a sense of social responsibility.
By engaging with Learn & Serve, you will develop new skills, create new opportunities, and make a difference in the lives of those around you!
If you’re ready to think outside the box and turn your knowledge into action, learn & serve is for you. Let’s get to work!
Note: Lessons will resume airing in January 2021
How can you apply what you learn to support your community? Can your math skills benefit your neighbors? Community Service Learning means supporting your community by developing solutions. That can include cleaning up your immediate environment, engaging in charity activities, visiting and sharing with the less fortunate, and creating opportunities for community entertainment and celebration.
What did you take-way?
You're an amazing innovator! What's one thing that you can do to benefit your community and also your own learning?
Let's apply this! With the help of your parent or guardian, identify an activity that you can do to make a positive impact in your community and carry it out. Note down what you were able to learn from the experience!
Share your notes, images, illustrations on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/EducateKenya
As an active member of your community, you should always be ready to find a solution to the challenges that come up in daily life. This is achieved through communication and collaboration with others. In this lesson, Juma and Peter manage to convince Kisach that their community’s problem, the pollution of the river, is their responsibility. Together, they hatch a plan and all take part in cleaning their river.
Listener, identify an act of service that you can offer to member(s) of the community to solve an issue and carry it out.
Submit a photo of the activity you carried out and share the following on https://www.facebook.com/EducateKenya:
1. Describe the act of service.
2. Who did you team up with to offer the service?
3. What were the Strategies you used to carry out the service?
4. What things did you needed in order to carry out the service?
Neema, a girl with physical disabilities is able to take leadership at home and at school. She is able to accomplish goals at home with her siblings and also introduce change in her school when she stands up to provide a solution for other disabled students by using her passion, available resources and skills.
Identify a leader in your community. Plan to meet them to talk about leadership. Ask them the following questions:
1. Their name and the role they hold in the community.
1. The achievements they have made in the community since they became a leader.
2.The quality/attribute/skill that has been most beneficial to them in their leadership.
3. Advice they could give a young aspiring leader?
Submit the answers and a photo evidence of the meeting you had with the leader on https://www.facebook.com/EducateKenya.
Baraka wants to be elected as the school captain at Upeo Secondary. He has good leadership qualities and a vision for his fellow students. On the other hand, Bahati also wants to be elected but he does not possess the leadership qualities and does not seem to have an important vision for his fellow students. However, he is very charming. Which candidate should the student community of Upeo Secondary vote for? Who would you vote for?
Learner, please attempt the following task:
1. Identify a leadership quality you wish to develop in yourself
2. Identify two strategies that will help you to develop this leadership quality.
3. Ask a parent/guardian/peer to hold you accountable as you work towards developing the leadership qualities.
Create a write-up on what you will do and when you will do it to enable you to develop the leadership qualities. Submit it to: https://www.facebook.com/EducateKenya.
Resources are things that can be used to develop solutions for community challenges. In this episode, Wafula and Atieno learn about their father's property and how it has been used to solve different challenges.
Learner, please attempt the following task:
Get together with other young people in your neighbourhood and do the following:
Walk around your neighborhood and take note of the natural and manmade resources in your community
Draw a map of resources in your community-use a key to define what is in the map
Talk to a few community members to find out their problems/needs
Create a write-up of challenges/ needs in the community. Submit it to: https://www.facebook.com/EducateKenya.
Kiondo City is a social enterprise that was started by Mrs. Mulago to address the plastic bag problem. She used her skills to transform plastic bags that would have ended up as waste into beautiful bags for sale. This has earned her an income, cleaned the environment, and supported other members of the community (for example, her employees) and waste plastics bags suppliers.
Learner, please attempt the following task:
From the community resource mapping task last week, make a list of:
3 needs in your community
3 resources to address the problem
3 skills needed
From these 3 needs, resources & skills think of a social enterprise idea for your project that can start to provide a solution for your community.
Submit your social enterprise idea and the need it will solve, the resources needed to develop it, and the skills needed to develop it to https://www.facebook.com/EducateKenya.
In this episode, Ann, Milka and Peter would like to start their own businesses. However, they do not know which ones to start or how to make the decision. A visit to Juma who runs a successful dog retail business allows them to learn a few things that could help in making the big decision.
Learner, please attempt the following task:
Answer the following questions about your social enterprise:
What is your product? Who is your customer?
Why will they want to buy your product?
Where will you find them?
When will you sell to them?
After writing your answers down, share with a parent or friend to see what they think of your idea. From your answers, determine if you should continue with your idea or come up with another one.
Submit answers to the questions above to https://www.facebook.com/EducateKenya.
So many businesses, even if well though out, fail to take off or survive in the long haul. In this episode, Peter, Musa and Chichi get an opportunity to learn from business persons who have gone before them. This should prepare them with the information they need to establish businesses that will thrive.
As you set out to establish your social enterprise:
Write down the resources you will need, including any other costs you will incur e.g. costs for space or transport
Write down 3 ideas on how to acquire these resources
Choose one idea and implement it
Submit answers to the questions above to https://www.facebook.com/EducateKenya
Amina and Hussein were struggling to get customers for their social enterprise. After doing some research, they decided to develop a mobile phone app to help them reach more markets. The innovation turned their enterprise around.
Learner, please attempt the following task:
Think about two businesses in your locality that address the same need as your business. Answer the following questions:
Which businesses are these?
What customer needs to they address?
Do you see areas where something more needs to be done?
What creative solution can you offer to better meet your customers' needs?
Submit answers to the questions above to https://www.facebook.com/EducateKenya
In this episode, you’ll meet Manu T, a renowned musician would like to give more opportunities to young people in his community to pursue music as a career. He has a well thought out plan. First he wants to start a music and dance academy, but he needs some resources to realize his dreams. For now he needs to think about how to acquire those resources. Manu T is able to communicate his thoughts and plans in order to achieve his vision, long & short term goals and action steps.
Learner, please attempt the following task:
Write down the vision you have for your community. Remember a community can be your home or your school. With the vision in mind, write down a goal that can be accomplished within the next 12 months. That is your long-term goal.
Then, write down what you must do within the next 3 months to be on track to meet the long term goal. These are your short-term goals.
Write down 2-3 things you plan to do immediately to meet your 3 month goal. Those are actionable steps.
Finally list 5 or 6 resources you need in order to achieve your long term goal. Share and discuss what you have written with your teacher, parent or guardian.
Submit your steps to https://www.facebook.com/EducateKenya
When the family toilet collapsed after a heavy downpour, Rehema knew that she needed to act fast. She mobilized her family and friends and took lead to ensure that they have a new toilet. Everyone's skills, available resources and Rehema’s passion and leadership is what was needed to make the difference.
Learner, please attempt the following task:
Identify a community issue or problem that relates to your vision
Think and write down an activity that you would like to undertake to address the issue or problem
Consult other people to get more information and ideas on the activity you want to do
Gather the required resources
Conduct the activity with the help of community members
Submit what you learned to https://www.facebook.com/EducateKenya
The members of Kajoni Village are considering new ways of addressing the cattle rustling problem that has plagued them for a long time. In this episode, they put their heads together in a Baraza and all community members participate in finding a permanent solution. The strategies that have been applied in the past have not borne fruit so far, but they can make a difference if they have the involvement of the whole community!
Get together with a few members of your community and:
Name one current problem in your community.
Discuss the root cause of the problem.
Plan and implement a community service learning activity to effectively address the problem.
Submit what you learned to https://www.facebook.com/EducateKenya
We all live in communities that suffer some form of environmental problem. In this episode, Zubeida, Tony and Stella are facing problems brought about by deforestation. We all a have a role to play in ensuring that environmental resources are used sustainably, waste is managed properly, and good practices are developed to ensure that our environments can support us for years to come.
Learner, please attempt the following task:
Identify an environmental problem in your immediate environment that you think needs to be solved and write it down. Develop a plan of how you will address the challenge. Remember that the plan should answer questions such as: Where will it be done? What will be needed? Who will do it? How will it be done? & When will it be done?
Organize to carry out the activity with the help of members of your school or parents or guardians. Share what you have learned from the activity with peers and other members of the community at https://www.facebook.com/EducateKenya