At Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (AUI), students are required to do community service, but AUI has no centralized way for students to find service projects in the community that stimulate their interests. The goal of this project is to improve the nature of volunteering at the university by building relationships between AUI and non-governmental organizations using a volunteer-match website as a tool. These relationships serve to expand the volunteer program at AUI and broaden the impact of volunteer work on the community. Using information from student focus groups and NGO interviews, we established a plan of implementation for this new volunteer-match service as well as recommendations to our sponsor.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Reed, Kevin Edward
• Stenson, Shane Joel
• Tedla, Tamene Zewdu
• Hitchen, James Iain

Subject

• Community
• Sustainability
• Computing

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-101813-224800

Keyword

• Community engagement
• Service learning

Advisor

• deWinter, Jennifer
• Krueger, Robert

Year

• 2013

Center

• Rabat, Morocco Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane
• Harroud, Hamid

Date created

• 2013-10-18

Location

• Rabat

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright