EGHS Students Uses Senior Project to Travel to the Dominican Republic to Help Others

EGHS Senior Lauren Lake enlisted the help of her classmates and used her Senior Project and February recess to not only travel to the Dominican Republic to help others, but also promote education and engage in service learning. Below are some details of her unique project and experiences. 

We salute Ms. Lake and all those who helped to make this project and experience possible.

Great job Avengers!

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I went to the Dominican Republic along with 11 other EGHS students. The name of the group and the project is called EG-DR. 
For my Senior Project I shadowed a Curriculum developer and created a series of workshops on the importance of education. I then was able to plan this service trip to go along with these lessons. The lessons were taught to the students in a school in the small village of El Pedregal, Dominican Republic.  

I am very proud of all of the EGHS students who changed many lives, and certainly made an empowering difference this past break. Our fundraising even allowed for us to purchase arm braces for a little boy in the village, as well as paint an extra home, which was much more than we had planned-- all due to the hard work and determination of EGHS students. 

EG-DR's Mission: 
Our mission is to ignite interest and advancements in education through projects and workshops within the  community of El Pedregal, Dominican Republic. 

EG-DR's Values:

• Unity- working to not only unite within our own group but with those in the Dominican Republic to carry out our mission and achieve success through many memorable and humbling experiences
• Integrity- upholding the utmost respect and kindness as we work with those in the Dominican Republic so our mission can be carried out in a respectful and effective way
• Community- creating a sense of community not only in our own volunteer group but also with the people of El Pedregal we will be working alongside and teaching
• Empowerment- Using education importance workshops run by Lauren Lake to spread the seriousness and importance of education, also inspiring our volunteers to share their own knowledge meanwhile they will learn from the community of the Dominican Republic.