Report: General Capstone Education and Volunteerism

This report examines general capstone education, focusing on community partnerships and volunteerism within a service-learning framework. It explores the benefits of student involvement in organizations like AWID, which addresses gender equality. The report discusses the nature of community partnerships, the role of volunteers in supporting organizational goals, and the relationship between volunteering and service learning. It highlights the advantages of service learning in enhancing student experiences and the potential challenges, such as the distance from academic guidance. The analysis includes references to relevant literature and provides a comprehensive overview of the subject matter.

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Community Partnership...................................................................................................................1
Volunteerism....................................................................................................................................1
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................2
References........................................................................................................................................3

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Introduction
Service learning refers to the opportunity that an individual receives by gaining experiencing and
volunteering in an organization. Community partnership refers to the activity partnering with
people in the society to mutually attain benefit in the environment. The students will receive the
benefits of learning in an innovative way and gaining real life experience through partnering in
NGOs. Community will attain the benefit by using the resources of partners volunteering them in
the society (Hartman, & Kiely, 2014). Students initiating service learning in the environment
might face the problem in controlling over learning in the environment as the student stay far
from their tutors. The company AWID is a potential community partner present the environment
that outlines the problem of equality in the society (AWID, 2018).
Community Partnership
The organization has currently partnered with more than 5000 people worldwide who working
with them to resolve the problem of gender equality in the society. Association of Disabled
Females International, Liquidambar etc. are some of the associations that work with AWID in
order to achieve their mission and vision in the society. Along with this, it should be noted that
there are many individual people like Fabrice BYIRINGIRO that works with the organization to
work for a good cause and help the women to boost up their self-esteem as well. These
partnerships emotional develop a person and help them to attain lifelong experiences. There were
a few past relationships of the organization with the people that ended on the completion of the
objective. Further, additional partnerships that the organization should create are the
organizations present in different parts of the company. The company should connect with
famous organization that can help them to circulate their motive in the environment (Huda,
Jasmi, Alas, Qodriah, Dacholfany, & Jamsari, 2018).
Volunteerism
The company make use of volunteers in the environment to support the functions that they
perform and upraise the rights of women as well. The organization AWID asks the volunteers to
participate in the events and help them to spread awareness and raise funds in the society. Along

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with the organization, the volunteers also attain benefits by working with the NGO. Further,
recognizing the major difference between volunteering and service learning is that service
learning is the mixture of studying and volunteering at the same time. Service learning process
involves helping the students to learn by studying as well as volunteering at organizations as
well. Whereas, volunteering involves the process of learning by gaining experience at
associations. Volunteering is a part of service learning only. Service learning will help the
students in understanding the circumstances and taking initiatives in the events as well (Darby,
Ward-Johnson, & Cobb, 2016).
Conclusion
Thus, in the limelight of above mentioned events, the fact should be noted that the organization
AWID asks to volunteers to promote the event and raise funds for them. The above mentioned
report also explain that volunteering is a part of service learning. The benefit of service learning
is that it grooms the nature of people and drawback is that it makes them away from the studies
(McDonald, & Dominguez, 2015).

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References
AWID, (2018). Who we are & what we do. Retrieved From: https://www.awid.org/who-we-are
Darby, A. N., Ward-Johnson, F., & Cobb, T. (2016). The unrecognized co-educator in academic
service-learning: Community partners’ perspectives on college students serving diverse
client populations. Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic
Engagement, 7(1), 3-15.
Hartman, E., & Kiely, R. (2014). Pushing Boundaries: Introduction to the Global Service-
Learning Special Section. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 21(1), 55-
63.
Huda, M., Jasmi, K. A., Alas, Y., Qodriah, S. L., Dacholfany, M. I., & Jamsari, E. A. (2018).
Empowering Civic Responsibility: Insights From Service Learning. In Engaged
Scholarship and Civic Responsibility in Higher Education (pp. 144-165). IGI Global.
McDonald, J., & Dominguez, L. A. (2015). Developing university and community partnerships:
A critical piece of successful service learning. Journal of College Science
Teaching, 44(3).