Ubelejit Oyet from Newfoundland leads school community to a clean-up

TELL US ABOUT THE ACTIVITIES AND IMPACT OF YOUR PROJECT

When talking with my local YEA (Caitlin Whelan) I mentioned that my school has a Social Justice Committee. She suggested that I go and talk to them about my project. So after talking with the committee and my principal, the committee started working with me on the project. They helped me with planning the project, packing boxes for the project and allowed the project to run smoothly. Working with them was a enjoyable time. 

TELL US HOW YOU RECRUITED AND INVOLVED YOUR PEERS IN THE PROJECT

When talking with my local YEA (Caitlin Whelan) I mentioned that my school has a Social Justice Committee. She suggested that I go and talk to them about my project. So after talking with the committee and my principal, the committee started working with me on the project. They helped me with planning the project, packing boxes for the project and allowed the project to run smoothly. Working with them was a enjoyable time. 

WHO DID YOUR PROJECT ENGAGE AND WHAT IMPACTS DID YOU AND YOUR TEAM ACHIEVE?

My project engaged my school community, St. Bonaventure’s College, specifically the students. We achieved cleaning up the outdoor environments of St. Bonaventure’s College, Bannerman Park and Rennies Mill Trail. 

TELL US ABOUT YOUR BIGGEST SUCCESS ACHIEVED THROUGH YOUR PROJECT

The biggest success of this project, was that people actually took action and cleaned up our environment. I feel that we do a lot of talking in society and not enough doing. Through my project things were done.

TELL US ABOUT THE LESSONS LEARNED THROUGH YOUR PROJECT

There were two lessons I learned through my project lesson. Lesson one was that working with a team makes a project significantly easier. The team I worked with helped with tasks such as packing boxes, planning the event and helping the event run smoothly. Without a team the event would have be much more complicated to put together so I am thankful for them. Lesson two is that putting together an event like this is much easier than you think. I gave myself enough time to plan the event, I met with the right people to make the event possible and I worked in teams. All these actions are simple yet powerful and they allowed for my event to happen.  

Ubelejit talks about his project during Passion to Purpose Forum Acadia last July 2019

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