Our very presence lifted their spirits. We were the first truly international group to stay at the Boronka camp. Each Round Square school presents an array of service opportunities to its own students. The scope of activities is enormous, ranging from support for the ill and elderly to child care to maintenance and rehabilitation of natural areas to operation of life-saving or protective agencies. Thousands of hours of such volunteer-service work are performed by Round Square students each week.
Students also take on emergency service when help is needed.
Schools train students in skills needed to be ready to help others in cases of emergency or disaster. From time to time, an opportunity to serve requires the efforts of a team from several schools. Larger projects may be directed by Round Square itself. The organization has the leadership, expertise and funding needed to take on complex, logistically difficult projects, such as school construction and disaster-relief projects mounted since the early 1980's at locations in India and Kenya. Students at Round Square schools raise money each year to supply construction and emergency-relief materials.