Brazil's Project Rondon, an educational program aimed at broadening a student's education and to assist in the development of the nation's most poverty-stricken areas, is described. Teaching the poor to meet their own needs is the guiding philosophy. (MLW)

This report endorses the concept of student volunteer programs and suggests that the high school and community organize their authority and resources to establish such programs. If both community needs and interested students exist, then the high school can coordinate individual projects into a coherent program to eliminate duplicated efforts, to…

Designed as a course to help senior high school students find their place as adults through involvement in the community, this unit allows students to work together, do volunteer work, recruit class speakers, participate in field trips, and help plan the class. This unit is divided into four sections: (1) organizing the class, (2) using the…