Community Service
Chaminade requires all students to participate in community service projects annually. Middle school students (grades 6 – 8) complete 10 – 20 hours annually while high school students complete 25 – 50 hours each year. Students help numerous groups throughout the St. Louis area. Recent Spring Break community service trips have been in “Coal Country” in West Virginia, Mexico, Africa and Haiti.
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Famous quotes containing the words community and/or service:
“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”
—Marian Wright Edelman (20th century)
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