Rein Community Service: Project Hawaii Program Overview & Recommendation

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Rein Community Service programs give students the opportunity to make a lasting impact on the lives of others through work with children, animals, the environment, and senior citizens. With a one-of-a-kind format, Rein Community Service projects provide the best possible social experience while maintaining everyone’s safety and security through campus living. By living at a university, students always have comfortable accommodations and a supportive community to come home to.

Rein Community Service programs go hand-in-hand with fun and adventure. In addition to core service projects, Rein travelers experience recreational options, cultural and local activities, and weekend travel opportunities. For students looking for a combination of service, sightseeing, and adventure, Rein Community Service projects are a unique and rewarding experience.

Trip Description

Rein Community Service: Project Hawaii combines community service activities each morning with a wide variety of electives each afternoon. Throughout the program, participants will accumulate 80 hours worth of community service.

Each morning, participants are chaperoned by deluxe motor coach to their community service project. Students have the opportunity to volunteer with children, animals, or senior citizens.

After volunteering each day, Project Hawaii participants can enjoy the campus sports facilities (Olympic-size swimming pool, gym, tennis, basketball, etc.) and computer labs. Afternoon fun also includes local field trips to the rainforest, where students hike to beautiful waterfalls, and visits to Nani Mau Gardens and famous Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Factory. In the evenings, enjoy everything from nights at the movies to authentic Hawaiian cultural activities. All cultural activities are specially coordinated for Rein Project Hawaii by the Hawaiian EDventure Program at the University of Hawaii. On weekend excursions, activities include snorkeling, surfing lessons, and visits to visits to black sand beaches, Pearl Harbor and Volcanoes National Park.

Staff Overview

The Rein Community Service staff is comprised primarily of teachers and graduate students who are committed to Project California’s ideals of volunteering and giving back to the community.

All staff members attend Rein’s professional training workshops where the emphasis is placed on the safety and well-being of teenage volunteers. Program Leaders are trained in basic first aid and CPR.

Setting & Accommodations

During the week, students are housed at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Dorm rooms are doubles, with a shared private bathroom connecting two rooms. On the weekends, students travel to neighboring islands where they stay in beautiful beachfront hotels.

During the week, the group eats breakfast and dinner together at the University Dining Hall. Lunch is provided at the various service projects. During the travel weekends, students eat 3 meals a day at various restaurants.

Safety Standards

To ensure a safe experience for project participants, all transportation during Rein Community Service programs is via professionally driven buses, and never in staff driven vans.

While projects are in session, the Rein Summer Communications Center is staffed 24 hours, 7 days a week by a team dedicated to monitoring program progress. The Communications Center can field questions from parents, or dispatch help if anything unexpected happens in the field. All Rein leaders carry cell phones at all times.

As a final precaution, company directors visit projects to ensure that everything runs smoothly.