Native American Project
For the past two summers (2010 and 2011) Human Services Students have had the unique opportunity to receive field work experience on the Navajo Reservation outside Gallup, New Mexico. This experience has been an opportunity for students to not only provide much needed assistance on the reservation but to learn about a culture that is some ways may not be that different but in many ways strongly contrasts their experience here.
The first year students helped to build a wheelchair ramp, a front porch, and painted the house for an Navajo elder. Roofed another home and fed the community and the homeless.
May 2012: This year the group is leaving on May 14 and returning on May 25. We are looking forward to being able to immerse ourselves in the native community. Tony a Navajo Leader is going to work with us more this year on getting into the culture from various perspectives. We are not sure what our construction project will be until we get there.
Every year I am amazed what not only the students bring back but what I bring back. My heart is always overflowing for the positive impact we have on the Dine' (First People/Navajo) and each other.
Stay tuned for more information.
(Under construction stayed tuned for additional information on this year's trip.)