Community service

There is a contingent of Student Affair students and staff led by Tom DiValerio who are performing some exciting community service projects here in South Africa.  The most significant project has been with the Zakhelee school in Mamelodi East Township (about 60 kilometers outside Johannesburg).
  The group spent two full days at the school painting and cleaning their library and other rooms (nooks were donated on a previous trip). They also painted a mural in their reading room
(and donated a few bean bag chairs for the kids). On Wednesday the students had a parade for the Rutgers volunteers and fed them a township hamburger (a burger with fish and meat and all the fixings). On Thursday after the mural was completed the school had a barbecue for all the Rutgers volunteers. the outpouring of appreciation from the students at the school was overwhelming. To emphasize their gratitude the school administrators  gave each of the Rutgers volunteers a Zulu name so as to "adopt" them into their family.
  A wonderful opportunity to give to the Johannesburg community through a generous and rewarding outreach by Rutgers-Camden.