Jane Addams: My Journey Of Service-Learning

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Jane Addams:
I cannot trace the trail back to the day I wanted to start doing service-learning. I have always been involved in my community and doing different activities for organizations. I know that while I was growing up I was a part of many different service projects. One thing my family always did was bag up our old clothes and donate them every couple of months and I would always raid our cabinets for food drives. One of my favorite things to do as a child was to pick out a few different children during the Christmas season to give toys too. While now I can see these actions as service, I used to just think of these different acts just as “fun”. I enjoyed doing these different things because I was always told that it would make other

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