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The Learn and Serve Program is no longer funded by the Learn and Serve Program grant, but our district continues the services we've provided to the residents at the Heritage Hill Senior Community in Weatherly. For the 2014-2015 school year, four students walk across the street on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the school day to help the seniors living at Heritage Hill Senior Community. The residents range in age from early 60s to 100+! Students help the residents learn to turn the computer on and off, how to get on the internet and how to access their email account and write/read emails. If the residents did not have an email, our students set one up for them.

Students also helps residents play games online, watch online news, view videos, and even check the stock market. They teach the residents how to become self-sufficient with the computer so they can use the computer at any time, not just when our students come over to work with them. Another very important part of our student’s work with the residents is building friendships. The residents know the students by name and each week they spend time talking and building a friendship between generations that means a great deal to the residents, some of whom have no living family members and very few visitors.