Pre-departure small teams

Students will self-select into Group I or Group J.

Service-Learning Team Work (required)

1. Within Group I and Group J, you will do some important and required service-learning planning connected to our stay at the Sri Ram Ashram.
2. Service-learning projects are connected to your course work; we will begin with some blue-sky activities in November of 2019 and continue blue-skying in early 2020.
3. You can read more about community service learning projects, here.
4. To review past group service-learning projects, go to our website where they have all been uploaded.

Pre-departure Team Work (voluntary)

1. Once Group I and Group J teams are determined, we will also develop some small teams within I and J to work on some important pre-departure activities. These activities are voluntary though we see almost all former students have very much enjoyed getting involved and exploring what it means to arrive as good guests.
2. These small teams, in the past, have helped us to:

• form strong bonds with one another
• strategize and raise money for gifts we wish to take to our partners (we had a very successful SteepedTea fundraiser in 2016, a pub-fundraiser in 2018)
• collect some strategically gathered items/donations for the ashram (can’t be too heavy given freight charges, etc)
• design a 2020 t-shirt for all travellers!
• design thank you cards for distribution to people who help us along the way (note: photographer and MRU staff person Kerri Martin might be willing to donate or discount some imagery for thank you cards; her website is http://kerrimartinphotography.com/ and her email is klmartin@mtroyal.ca)