Service Saturdays are Back!

ISD service groups hold a longstanding reputation for helping the wider community while fostering student skills and knowledge through responsible action. Inquiry is a key part of the work service groups do in planning successful events and partnerships to benefit others, this allows them to develop their IB Learner Profile attributes. By engaging in service initiatives to support underprivileged individuals, students grow as unique individuals who recognize their role in relation to others as a member of the international community.

After a long pause due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Service Saturdays are back in ISD. On September 17th, ISD held the first Service Saturday of the academic year of 2022-23. This is a significant event when all the ISD service groups and their community partner school students gather together to engage in direct service activities. These activities include teaching subject-related lessons, arts and crafts, raising awareness on social issues, teaching basic skills, playing sports, and connecting over board games. Visiting students in attendance included disadvantaged students from Bashundhara Special Children Foundation, FFC Orphanage, Utsho and LEF Orphanage. These partner organizations provide food and education for students from low-income families. Through Service Saturdays’ engagement, ISD students get an opportunity to take a meaningful impact to support the education and well-being of children who lack social privilege. Their purposeful collaboration helps both groups with life-changing experiences.

We are delighted about the impactful action that ISD service groups are taking to help others and looking forward to many more successful Service Saturdays.

Ishrat Jahan
Service & CAS Coordinator