Black
Belt Service Projects
KAT students are required to select, design, fund,
and carry out a community service project whenever they test for
a black belt. The students pick a project that is important to
them and then recruit and lead others to carry it out. Here are
some of the projects they have completed:
Sarah Gehrke Canned Food Drive
Christina
Seraile Blanket Drive
Edwin Montero Cleans up a Park
Zak Kirk and Liz Brewer
For Zak's and my Second Dan Community Service Project, our aim
was to collect donations for the Denver Battered
Woman and Children's Shelter. We picked this place, because
both this shelter and Taekwondo are about empowering people and
helping them become stronger, whether it be emotionally or physically.
Both the Shelter and Taekwondo instill a sense of change and starting
over to reach the potential someone can become. The woman and
children who escape abusive situations need help and support starting
a new life, free of abuse and fear.
Zak and I asked fellow ACT members to donate clothing, new toiletries,
or toys for a giant donation to the Shelter. Unfortunately, due
to the nature of the Auraria Campus and its lacking in community,
we were not able to collect much outside of our personal donations.
The Auraria campus is trying to create more of a campus community
and unity between students, but this is something the campus still
struggles with. Perhaps more announcements and advertisements
of the campaign may have let more people be reminded to donate.
We hope the lack of donations does not reflect on people's inablitiy
to care for people in need, but rather reflect more on the nature
of a non-traditional campus in general. |