community service component

Part of my keystone project includes a community service aspect that ties my project to an area of community outreach. Not knowing what approach to take with this part of the project, I met with Roni Ben-David who is the head of community outreach at my school (she also does a variety of other great things for the school). The first thing she brought up, was a self-defense program for women called El Halev that was created by a woman named Yudit who lives in Israel. Ron forwarded me the email she had received Yudit. It looked perfect. A great mission- to help women protect themselves, a nice Jewish lady leading it, and a focus on some kickboxing moves. I quickly emailed her back, told her a little about myself, what this senior year project called keystone was, and that I'd love to help her out with anything she needs when she comes to the United States in the spring. She was super excited and emailed back, which made me happy after my first failed attempt to contact a new person.

Now we are in the process of organizing something- which should be great. I'll will update soon on how my paper is going, my certification process is going, and Yudit, my community service leader, is doing.