Norcal Harvesting Experience

As I was walking towards the door getting closer to the entrance of the NorCal Harvesting office I observed and looked at my surroundings. The weather was pleasant and windy, the birds whistling and singing a charming melody and people walking in and out of the building. For a minute, I was observing and paying close attention to my surroundings and thought to myself “How lucky am I to be here today”, I looked back and saw the big parking space that the office has which has the perfect size to organize and plan an event. Last week the team members of El Jardin and I got together and discussed the successes and challenges of the program. One of the biggest challenges and concerns of the program is analyzing why students are not showing up to the program and why is the program not becoming successful. Besides serving and helping the students with their academic another interesting task that I have is coming up with an idea on how to recruit more service learners and how to motivate more students of farm working families to attend and participate in the program. Last week one of the program members mentioned that in order motivate more students and inform parents about the homework program it would be a great idea to begin organizing a small event like a carnival and invite farm working families with children to this event. The big focus of this event is to inform parents about the resources of the program and for parents to have the opportunity to meet service learners like myself who come from the same background …show more content…
I believe that organizing this event will not be easy because the program needs a lot of support however if the program is able to organize something like a carnival or a small event I am sure that this will motivate students to participate and parents to feel more comfortable with the staff and