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Another example of a community project is our clean up of Duncan Park. Thanks to a generous donation from the Austin Parks Foundation, the Duncan Park elective program took off. Students have divided into specific committees and worked hard to help improve the park. The art committee worked closely with
 art teacher to design tile mosaics that they installed on the park tables. The technology committee designed a web page for their class and “The Spot” committee is responsible for planning out renovation projects for the area on the east end of the park. They planned renovations to the rock wall structure that prevents erosion and worked hard to lead a group in clearing out invasive trees. Students also raised and additional $1,250 in donations from our neighbors!
As part of their application to the Austin Private School Association Honor Roll students with an impressive overall GPA of 3.5 or higher are asked to submit a description of their community service work. In the past few months, Khabele students contributed well over 1,000 hours of volunteer service to such organizations as Austin Children’s Shelter, Blue Santa, Boy Scouts of America, Caritas, Dell Children’s Hospital, Ecology Action, Mobile Loaves and Fishes, Paws of Austin, SXSW, and The Yellow Bike Project. Other highlights in the world of service and giving include: • Students volunteered at a local school in Rio de Janeiro during the trip to Brazil • Senior Josh Newburger was nominated for the KVUE “Kids Who Care” award for his classical music concert benefit for HAAM (which was his spring project week last year) • Everett Webre along with Dashiell Sublett and Ben Serra organized a cocktail party and concert raising over $3,000 for Klip Town Community Center in South Africa. • Kelly Caplan and Daniel Albert spent project week collecting live auction items for the Khabele School Spring Gala, which raised over $15,000 for the school’s annual fund. • The school received an unsolicited letter from CASA acknowledging several project week volunteers, including Petros Kalopetredis, Max and Daisy Fortkort, and Jessica Wheeler. |
The Khabele School engages in frequent school community projects, taking pride in learning opportunities both in and outside the classroom. While we value international trips, local trips are just as meaningful and crucial to creating an engaging curriculum. Annually, the entire school marches for Civil Rights from the State Capitol to Huston Tillotson College on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to generate awareness of past and present civil rights issues.