Service-Learning for High School Students

The High School Program provides a service-learning framework focused on (a) genuine community engagement, (b) cross-cultural experience, and (c) personal development through mentoring.

At D3 Hungary, we build our program in a way that provides a great variety of opportunities for high school students to explore, learn and interact in different fields of life with different people. We create an environment that will pose entirely different challenges that high school students are used to. These challenges will draw brand-new pictures, shaping their values and their view of life, meanwhile entering into new friendships, being creative and serving in cross-cultural teams.

Cross – cultural environment
The program lays a huge emphasis on working in an international context and building a long-lasting international community. In today’s world, cross-cultural teams and relations are becoming more and more common, meaning that people are expected to adapt to the new situation. We accommodate people from different parts of the world with different values and different cultures. In this cross-cultural environment, the participants have to work with each other, regardless their cultural background and learn how to cooperate successfully by building on the similarities to eliminate the differences in order to be efficient. We do not just host foreign students, but also send Hungarian students to foreign countries to shape their picture of world with thicker contours.

Development through mentoring
D3 Hungary is established to influence the human being as a whole. The body, the mind and the soul have to be in harmony to learn, live and teach others. We consider mentoring to be the best way of guiding students to find out their own strengths, weaknesses and opportunities and to help them acquire those knowledge that they need for further development. Through the mentoring program we provide an environment with moderate responsibilities and lots of opportunities to explore, fail and succeed under the supervision of mentors to find out what is it that you are passionate about.

Community engagement
“One person can make a difference and everyone should try” – John F. Kennedy
Our people are focused to implement those academic knowledge, creativity and vision that they acquired to make a difference not just for one or two people but for communities. Through serving, they become social entrepreneurs who are able to solve emerging issues by being the people in whom the social and business life are met. Through different platforms, they connect with various groups of people who seek for help. Here students and mentors work together to find out feasible solutions for different challenges of the society.