Service Learning Log

Well last week was a slow week, but Saturday was the big day. That was when the Women to Women Conference was going on. This was when they had farm working women come to this event to talk about issues such as domestic violence all the way to self-care. I believe this was put on by YAYA and the person that supervised me was Dr. Santana. My successes was just seeing all the women and the children having these big smiles on their faces and seeing that they were learning so much things from the certain discussions that were going on. The chapter that we were discussing last week and this week ties in directly to the environment. We were talking to women that work as farmers and anything else that has to deal with that aspect. I do not know too much about the women’s working conditions and their pay, but I would think that neither of these things is adequate enough for them to support their families. Most of these women could not speak English very well, so they had discussions in Spanish which was very helpful to them and their children. As an aspiring social worker, I was definitely in my element seeing how the people that were leading the discussions did it in an open forum type of way which was therapeutic and enlightening at the same time. The impact that the Hope Community Center has on the community seems like it is a really huge one. It seems like they help these women in any type of way they can. Since most Latinos are Catholic, the Hope Community Center is faith based. I think that this is a good way to reach out to this population and to get through in order to make an impact. I felt like I got soooooo  much from this day. I saw many people take their time out of their lives to come and educate these women and give them resources if they should ever get stuck. And that;s exactly what I want to do when I get out into the real world.