Service Learning and What in the World this Documentary has to do with it

My focus for my Capstone actually started with service learning.  My friend, Leah, met the Boyd's while she was on Spring Break with a purpose in Raleigh, NC.  She called me up, told me about the family and the rest is history.

My documentary focuses around International Adoption and life for the family after the children are adoption.  In relation to service learning, it raises awareness of the hardships orphans in Eastern Europe face in the orphanages.  The children start off in not so healthy environments: being chained to cribs and staying in them for so long it deforms their bodies...

                                           
                                           
The children hardly receive enough nutrients to sustain themselves and in many cases, never see outside of the orphanage grounds. 

 

After spending a week with the Boyd's, I connected with them on such a close level and I feel like I am helping them personally when I inform others of the befits of adoption, as well as the horrors which go on in some Eastern Europe orphanages.