Guåhan Sustainable Culture (GSC) is looking for high school students who would like to learn about local agriculture, and contribute to Guåhan’s food security at our community gardens and Food Resiliency Hub! Our Serve and Grow volunteers will get hands-on experience working alongside GSC team members while gaining garden skills, making professional connections, and serving our community.
Volunteers will engage in a variety of garden tasks including planting, watering, weeding, harvesting, preparing garden beds, maintaining an aquaponics system, and other garden
activities.
Serve and Grow volunteer participants will receive opportunities that foster workplace skills, personal connections, and community service. Volunteers should expect to be accompanied by a site supervisor and possibly work alongside AmeriCorps GSC members. Students must be in good mental, emotional and social health and be able to function in a group setting in a positive and cooperative manner that displays tolerance and respect for themselves and others.
Preparation Instruction:
Volunteer Schedule:
● Thursdays, weekly at the Hagatna G3 Community Garden from 3:30pm - 5pm
● Saturdays, biweekly at the GSC Food Resiliency Hub (former Hamamoto Gardens) from
9am - 12pm
Sign up at:
http://www.gusustainable.org/opportunities
Instructions:
All volunteers must sign our one-time liability waiver prior to volunteering, and sign in using the
QR code upon arrival.
Volunteers under 18 years of age must have a parent / guardian sign their liability waiver.
GSC Waiver:
https://form.jotform.com/GU_Sustainable/GSC-Liability-Waiver
Volunteers are encouraged to dress appropriately for the weather, wear closed toed shoes
(required), and bring a water bottle with you!
Check out our website to more about GSC and our programs, sign up for our monthly
newsletter, and follow us on social media!
http://gusustainable.org/
On your service day, wear comfortable clothes and close toed shoes (required), and bring sun protection and a water bottle. You can check out our website,
sign up for our monthly newsletter, and follow us on social media to learn more about Guåhan Sustainable Culture!
Get to know us by checking out our website and social media. Learn about community gardening. On your service day wear appropriate attire which includes: a t-shirt, comfortable athletic shorts, socks, and shoes (required). It is also recommended to bring a water bottle, lunch and/or snacks, sunscreen, and a bag to hold all personal items. Water will be provided on site.
Activity Instruction:
Volunteers will:
- Engage in a variety of garden tasks including planting, watering, weeding, harvesting, preparing garden beds, maintaining an aquaponics system, and other garden activities
- Learn how to cultivate their own food through learning about methods of sustainable farming and other ways to improve food security on Guam.
Volunteer Schedule:
● Thursdays, weekly at the Hagatna G3 Community Garden from 3:30pm - 5pm
● Saturdays, biweekly at the GSC Food Resiliency Hub (former Hamamoto Gardens) from 9am - 12pm
Sign up at:
http://www.gusustainable.org/opportunities
Reflection Instruction:
Your individual reflection should answer the following questions:
What activities did I participate in?
What is something new I learned?
How did these activities positively affect me and the local community?
Keep in mind that Guahan Sustainable Culture (GSC) is a non-profit organization. If you choose to present your reflection as a video post on social media or as part of a presentation in front of your class, get permission and show your video presentation/ slide show/ powerpoint to a lead representative of the organization to ensure all media are cleared and approved to be shared in that format. Remember that there are always permissions that need to be given when other people are in the pictures and video with you. Additionally, the nonprofit organization would need to ensure all messaging about their organization is correct and that it represents the organization properly.
The Guam Service Learning Website reserves the right to be given access to any media promotion of projects listed on the
www.guamservicelearning.com website.
THANK YOU! tag us, send us the link or message us on whatsapp at 671-688-4752 so we can include your media reflection on our social media, for the purpose of encouraging other students to sign up for the same project in the future.
Learning Standards/Objectives:
Volunteers will become more knowledgeable about Guam’s food system through learning how to grow their own food and methods of sustainable farming.
STANDARD 2 SCIENCE: Life Science: Students understand the diversity and unity of living organisms, the living environment, and principles of ecology.
BI.2.26: Explain that the amount of life any environment can support is limited by the available energy, water, oxygen, and minerals, and by the ability of ecosystems to recycle the residue of dead organic materials; recognize, there fore, that human activities and technology can change the flow and reduce the fertility of the land.
BI.2.30: Recognize and describe how human beings are part of Earth’s ecosys tems and that human activities can, deliberately or inadvertently, alter the equilibrium in ecosystems
BI.2.31: Understand and describe how organisms are influenced by a particular combination of living and nonliving components of the environment.
BI.2.32: Recognize and describe how the physical or chemical environment may influence the rate, extent, and nature of the way organisms develop within ecosystems.
STANDARD 1: HEALTH EDUCATION: Core Concepts: Comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.
HS.1.1: Predict how healthy behaviors can affect health status
HS.1.2: Evaluate the interrelationships of physical, mental/emotional, and social health.
HS.1.3: Analyze how environment influences personal and community health.
Organization/Agency/Business Name: Guahan Sustainable Culture
