Community Garden

April 2010

La Vozes Members and the Wahluke school district have partnered with the FFA and WSU Extension 4-H Master Gardeners to establish a community garden to raise food for local food bank. The ground for the community garden was donated by the Wahluke school district, across from the high school. Students will be maintaining the garden during the growing months of the garden.

Community Survey

Students assisted the North Columbia Community Action Council in distributing and acquiring the 2009 Community Survey. The survey a pamphlet 15 pages long consisting of 45 quetions gathering knowledge of community members experience, participation, invovlement of thier community and people's ideas of how to improve poverty in their region. Students acted as interpretors for those who spoke and/or read only in Spanish. The students handed out 250 surveys in the first round. In return North Columbia Community Action Council sponsored 14 studetns to attend the 4-H Summer teen Connference, held in Pullman.

Student Cultural Exchange

La Voz de Los Jovenes was invited to attend a 2-day student culutrual exchange with some youth from Eqaudor at Washington State University in Pullman. Six students from the program were selected to represent Wahluke High School and meet with the equador students to discuss poverty and what it looks like, what can be done and how to find some common ground to dealing with poverty issues even from across the world.

During the workshop students were given the chance to particiapte in a wall climbing exercise, some were more than happy to particpate, some were happy to provide the much needed encouragment and moral support.

Part of the workshops was to teach students abouts creating documentaries.

Poverty Labels

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