For my community service hours, I served
in three different areas. The first area
was with SAGA Humane Society in Belize. The humane society here in Belize has a small staff and limited resources, so we decided to devote some of our time to help them in anyway they needed. I spent 7 hours along with a few other girls
from our group. The first day we were
there, we spent two hours fixing kennels, cleaning up the dog kennels, and
washing the dog bowls. The second day we
were there we spent 5 hours painting buildings and dog kennels. We also were privileged to get to play with all the cute dogs that SAGA had rescued! The next service hours I did was with
ACES. ACES is the American Crocodile
Education Sanctuary. ACES devotes their time to educate the people of Belize about crocodiles and also protect them from danger and harassment. A group of us went
out with the ACES staff and spent three hours helping them pick up trash and
break down crocodile cages. This
community service project took a lot of muscle.
We were using hammers, wire clippers, and even our entire body weight to
tear down the walls to these crocodile cages.
The reason ACES needed our help with this particular task is because
they are relocating the crocodile sanctuary due to people harassing the animals
at their current location. My final 8
hours of community service have been dedicated to writing a book for the children
in Belize. The book is called The ABC’s of the Belize Zoo. I spent two hours at the Belize zoo taking pictures
and learning about the animals. One hour
was spent working with Emma on the script.
The remaining 5 hours I spent on formatting the book, adding pictures,
and translating the book into Spanish to be able to have a Spanish version for
the students that predominately speak Spanish.
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