Community Engagement

Community and Service starts in the classroom and extends beyond it, requiring students to take an active part in the communities in which they live. AISL strives to help students develop and practice compassion in the context of the broader community here in Zambia. The emphasis is on developing community awareness and concern, and the skills needed to make an effective contribution to society.

• Action and the PYP
  The action component of the PYP can involve service in the widest sense of the word: service to fellow students, and to the larger community, both in and outside the school. Through such service, students are able to grow both personally and socially, developing skills such as cooperation, problem solving, conflict resolution, and creative and critical thinking. Every student, every year, has the right and opportunity to be involved in action (Making the PYP Happen 2009)​

​Examples of how students take action.
Students:

• help a friend when s/he gets hurt
• teach classmates how to play a group game
• bring books, bugs or other artifacts from home into school to show to classmates
• pick up garbage near the tuck shop, on the playground or in the community
• raise money for a local organization or charity through a bake sale, read-a-thon, auction, or raffle
• play and read with children at a local school or orphanage