One Year, One Community, One Direction
Submitted by Clare Holdinghaus, Year 18 ERT
This month I got to return to Joplin for the one year anniversary of the tornado. Being in the AmeriCorps Recovery Center, seeing the destruction and talking to homeowners again brought back all the stress and frustration and all the sadness that [...]
A Week at Markham Springs – Written By Sara Levine, ERT Yr 18
This week was an exciting week for our Emergency Response Team on the Bike Trail. We were able to bring a team of 14 people! In addition to 8 ERT members, 6 members from the [...]
The first few weeks of November were enlightening, to say the least. After a whirlwind of trainings, workshops, and power-point presentations, I was finally growing into a novice wildland firefighter. The only thing I felt like I hadn’t done yet was be on a fire, though it seemed like a long way off to [...]
One of the most shocking things about the tornado zone in Joplin is the complete lack of living things. Not only are houses and cars missing from properties, but blocks upon blocks of city streets are bare of trees, shrubs, or even grass and flowers. Those trees still standing are often twisted, bare, and [...]
ST LOUIS – I had the opportunity to tutor Adhitya during the course of her second grade year at Woodward Elementary. Her family, originally from Bhutan, lived in a Nepalese refugee camp for 18 years, along with many others who were forced to leave Bhutan in the early 1990s. I met her one year after [...]
ST LOUIS – At the end of second year of service, now as the Team Leader at Woodward Elementary, I decided to tutor a couple of my students from last year once more before the end of the school year. My little first graders have become taller, almost-third-graders, and they are no longer in need [...]
ST LOUIS – Back in April, I was working with my champion, Antasia, on a new book that was just slightly above her level. She has some difficulties with producing content and writing sometimes, but she is excellent at picking up new words and blend sounds, and I use that to build her confidence.
I [...]
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