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Service Opportunities
September 13
Alameda County Food Bank, Oakland. 9 a.m. to 12 noon or 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
September 27
Museum of Children's Art, Oakland. 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
October 4
Women's Cancer Resource Center: Swim a Mile at Mills College, Oakland. 8:30 a.m. to 12
noon; 11:15 a.m. to 3 p.m.
October 13
Regional Service Project: Teens on Trails, San Francisco. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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BwB is hiring! Make a difference every day! Click here
for details.
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Our Mission
Enhancing education
and empowering youth
in the U.S. to make a positive difference
in their communities while helping people of developing countries increase their self-reliance through education.
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Join BwB Online and Help Spread the Word!
If you haven't visited BwB's new
website and social networking pages, check them out! We invite you to join
- or
start - the
conversation online and spread the word about BwB and how you are helping to change the world! Click an icon to join us online:
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Welcome to New & Returning Members!
This fall, BwB California will partner with 20 schools in the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Area to host
after-school programs. We offer a special welcome to three new schools joining us this year: Alameda High School in the East Bay, and Galileo High
School and John O'Connell High School in San Francisco. We also welcome Selena Granados, Program Coordinator, and Tom Silverman, Program & Trek
Coordinator,
to the BwB team. Together, we look forward to another great year of service, education, sponsorship and fun! Click here
to visit the CA region's web page.
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CA Trek Team Finds a New Home in Mali
Thousands of miles from home this summer, the 20 members of the California Trek for
Knowledge team
were ushered under a shady shelter in the village of Kongolikoro, Mali. The welcome ceremony commenced and the village representative announced "You
have left your home, and you are now at home. Feel at ease." As the students stood to introduce themselves in Bambara, the local language,
they each
stumbled awkwardly over their new Malian names and looked for familiarity in a foreign world. Read
more.
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Service, Learning & Fun Add Up to Busy Summer
This year's California Lead team kept busy this summer with a full
agenda of professional development workshops, global education outings, volunteer days with local service providers and a full month of internship
experiences!
The 22-member team volunteered at a variety of service projects including cleaning up the Berkeley
Marina (in photo). Lead
is BwB's yearlong leadership program made up of students from BwB programs throughout a region. Read
more about the CA Lead team.
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BwB Member Lets Nothing Get in Her Way
After hearing a presentation about the Trek for
Knowledge program
two
years ago, BwB member Antonia
DeMichiel of St. Mary's College High School decided that nothing would get in her way of going to Mali. With her newfound self-confidence and
resilient spirit, she trekked to Mali this past summer, overcoming shyness and learning firsthand about another culture. Along the way, the villagers
she met in Mali learned as
much from Antonia as she did from them. Read more.
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