Boy’s & Girl’s ClubCHA Group

MembersJason Owusu, Middle College, Senior

Fely Sita, CSU East Bay, Post Baccalaureate

Victoria Quarshie, CSU East Bay, Post Baccalaureate

Jermelle Newman, CSU East Bay, Post Baccalaureate

Nneka Anyanwu, CSU East Bay, Post Baccalaureate

Gelila Mehari, Oakland Tech, Junior

Chase Goldberg, Oakland Tech, Sophomore

Soukeyna Seck, College of Alameda, Sophomore

Community Site• Liason: Scedric Jackson• Address: 920 24th Street.

Oakland, CA 94607• This site is a youth based

community center with a 99% African American population including kids ages 6-18 years old.

• This center focuses on serving underprivileged communities and being a place that young kids can go to after school for such services as tutoring and mentoring.

• This center keeps youth encouraged and helps educate them about making positive choices while their young .

Community Service Project • Two day presentation on the

topic: Personal Hygiene• Four subtopics: Cleanliness,

Nutrition, Grooming, & Puberty• Participants were in groups for

part of the presentation based on subtopics.

• Audience was active in presentation (powerpoint) discussions (Puberty).

• Mini presentations by individual groups on their nutrition icebreaker activity.

• Question session was conducted at the end to answer any questions kids had submitted to the “question box.”

What We Learned:Our participants were open to discuss the topic at hand.

They were motivated to share their ideas.The kids were familiar with most of the basic ideas of our

topic.

Benefits:We made connections with the kids.

We all got the opportunity to practice public speaking.We were able to be involved in a community close to us.

Teamwork • As a group, we worked well together as we

were open to each others’ ideas.• This presentation gave us various perspectives

on how to work with other individuals.• Everyone was able to contribute to the

presentation.• Our communication level could use some

improvement.• As a whole, we could have been more assertive

in completing our tasks.

We were able to work with various people in order to achieve a common goal! It is important to focus on serving and understanding our communities so that when we become medical doctors, we are able to better serve the individuals we encounter.