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COMMUNITY
These students develop
‘hearts for the world’
BY STACY CUBES
SPECIAL
After learning about poor conditions in
Russian orphanages and wanting to help,
Stacy Bubes, through Holy Innocents’ Senior
Capstone Project, created “Tiny Tees,”
imprinted baby bodysuits, sold locally.
Proceeds benefit her cousin’s orphanage.
When I was 12, my
aunt and uncle adopted a
child from an orphanage
in Russia. During the first
few months leading up to
his arrival, I learned about
the poor conditions at his
orphanage, which left me
with a sense of guilt.
Shortly after my cous
in’s adoption, I became a
Bat Mitzvah. Instead of
gifts, I asked my guests for
contributions to donate
to the orphanage. These
contributions, which sur
passed $8,000, were des
ignated to replace win
dows. This small effort
on my part had an out
standing effect, and drove
my desire to continue to
help others in similar sit
uations.
As a student at Holy
Innocents’ Episcopal
School in Sandy Springs,
I discovered another way
I could make a differ
ence. During my fresh
man year, I was chosen
from a group of 31 appli
cants to participate in the
“Global Citizenship” pro
gram, a multi-year course
that would open our eyes
to struggles in other parts
of the world and give us
an opportunity to help.
Our class consists of
discussions around controversial topics
in today’s society such as “charity and
justice,” “cultural identifiers” and “glo
balization.” The teacher of the course,
Quinton Walker, came to Holy Inno
cents’ in 2007 to start the program.
“I want graduates from the program
to question the status quo, look for op
portunities to serve, wherever they may
be found, and consider the possibili
ty of ‘what can I do to have an impact
on the world, both locally and global
ly,”’ Walker said. “I
want them to ques
tion. Think. Cre
ate. Act. Above
all, I want to help
students devel
op hearts for the
world.”
A large com
ponent of Glob
al Citizenship is how students spend
their summers. We are required to
perform community service or learn
about new cultures, either domestical
ly or internationally. During my soph
omore summer, I attended a program
at the University of Michigan. I vol
unteered in areas around Detroit and
Ann Arbor, where I found a stunning
amount of poverty. The next summer,
I participated in an exchange program
at my school and traveled to Argenti
na, where I stayed with an Argentine
family. I still keep in contact with the
friends I made there.
These class discussions and sum
mer experiences prepare students in the
Global Citizenship program for their
Senior Capstone Project.
Each student identifies a problem
in the world they feel needs to be ad
dressed. We each
think up a social
entrepreneurship
project to address
this need. Once we
create our project,
we give a presen
tation to a board
of about 10 peo
ple who give it a
thumbs up or down. If a project is ap
proved, the student receives $2,500 to
start the project.
When I began thinking about my
project, I knew that I wanted to help
children in orphanages, and specifical
ly those in my cousin’s orphanage in
Russia. The difficult part came when I
needed to figure out how I could help.
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