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Service-Learning is a format for individuals to connect within their community. The idea of service-learning is to avoid the idea of “helping the help” and “volunteer”. The purpose of “serving” is to see eye to eye, and to avoid the idea of belittling the community. Service-learning is an experience where humanity can be humans and learn basic human rights. My role as a service-learner in the community is to be able to comprehend the root issues that are rooted in the community. To fully comprehend what the community is facing, and be able to use my role in the social change ecosystem. The organization that I will be working with will be RotaCare. RotaCare missions is to provide and access free medication to low to no income. What I know from this program is that most of the patients that come to the clinic are predominantly Spanish-speaking Latinos with limited English. I have worked with Rotacare in the past, and found myself more engaged in this partnership than other community partners in the past. My second semester in the Freshmen year, I worked with the Marin School and the following semester I worked with Canal Alliance. These two different partnership paved the way to the correct understanding of Service-Learning and led me to RotaCare.

The main roles that I demonstrate is being a caregiver, and bridge builder. In RotaCare I become patient towards the patients that come in, along with the different physicians to connect them among the language barrier. Being a caregiver comes natural for me because I am the oldest so being nourishing and caring for others is normal. This allows me to connect with the patients. The beginning of the chapters in “Is Everyone Really Equal?” goes in depth the universal understanding of social justice and “respect for their basic human rights”(Sensoy, Diangelo). When I first read the theoretical definition of ‘social justice’ this reminded me of the political status that we are in regarding health care, immigration, and gun laws. Is not affordable health care, starting a new life, and being able to attend school without fearing a next mass shooting basic human rights? The passage continues on in order to fully comprehend or receive the best information one must step back from the final grade and see the main importance of the class. This also reminded me to keep an open mind when having group discussions. Everyone has different opinions, which comes from the personal and cultural knowledge. Later in the passage, it talks about how knowledge is constructed among different social classes. There was a diagram of how kids would respond towards certain questions. In the lower class most students were being told what to do, instead of having the ability to of their own thought process. In the middle class and upper class, students have the ability to have their own opinions and questions. The upper class are given this platform to be more aware of their surroundings and be able to think out of the box. In other words, in order for students to have a bigger opportunities and the ability to surpass their insecurities.