Response to Service Learning Project

Upon visiting the YWCA of Kankakee, I was immediately impressed with their mission of empowering women through the provision of subsidized childcare services. By providing this service, women have a safe place to leave their children while they attend school or work; because of this the value of the daycare facility to these families cannot be underestimated. I am very excited to begin working in this facility as it provides me with an opportunity to interact with children from lower income families, this will help me to understand some of the situations my future students might be coming from. I also hope to learn from this project methods and ways in which I can include service learning in my own classroom someday to help students better connect with certain topics and issues in the literature they read.