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FITZGERALD  \nAbstract: During the 2022 and 2023 school year, a group of eight college professors, 67 university education students, 27 primary school teachers and principals, and 200 primary school students participated together in a project titled, The Caravan of Friendship and Games. During the year, students suggested that they should also work with the elderly. Consequently, the project team added visitation to facilities for the elderly which included 240 elderly people. From the analysis of the survey data, the professor team realized that volunteering was not only beneficial to young students and the elderly people, but the data also revealed that the volunteers (university professors, university students, primary school teachers and principals) benefited from their efforts in the project. Showing once again that when people volunteer, they enter into a reciprocal beneficiary relationship—that one might call the ultimate win-win situation.  \nKey words: volunteerism, benefits of being graceful, transcendence, co-curricular activities  \n1. Introduction  \nAccording to Gazibar and Giuglea (2018) education results in urban and rural areas show that rural areas continue to struggle and in some cases the gap between urban and rural schools are widening. In their report, Inequalities in Romania Despite Recent Improvements in Romania. Poverty and Income Inequality Remain High, and Regional Disparities Are Deepening, the report made the following recommendations connected to children and schools:  \no Improve access to quality mainstream education, especially for Roma and children in rural areas.  \no Increase the efficiency and effectiveness of social transfers, particularly for children, and continue social assistance reform.  \no Ensure stronger commitment to cooperation and multi-stakeholder partnerships, especially at grassroots level.  \no The ”Leave no one behind” principle should identify and address the causes of vulnerabilities and inequalities and promote respect for human rights. (p. 4)  \nThe report also indicated the following discrepancies between urban and rural schools:  \no The difference between the results of the children from urban and rural at national tests is confirmed by the results on the national tests in 2017. 35, 3 % of the 8th grade pupils form rural areas obtained low results, compared to 14 % in urban schools. Only 68, 3% from pupils in rural areas passed the Baccalaureate exam, compared to 83, 5% in urban areas. (p. 10)  \nStudents, parents, and teachers in rural areas need more help. If we are serious about reaching all children so they will be successful in school. If we maintain the status quo, then we will just continue the seemingly never-ending cycle of continues poverty for our rural children and their families.  \nTo attempt to do our part to help, our university participants developed two main purposes for our project. The first purpose was to form partnerships with schools in villages that had a significant number of students from underprivileged households. In these partnerships our goal was to give students opportunities to participate in co-curricular activities not usually accessible in their community schools. The second purpose was to engage our university students with teachers and students from these community schools in order to help our university students understand how rewarding working in smaller and lower socioeconomic communities can be. We believed that the interactions among teachers, principals, future teachers, and university professors would develop into professional connections that will last beyond this specific project.  \nThe university professors and their students developed this project, The Caravan of Games and Joy, to offer fun and active co-curricular activities to motivate the young students to enjoy school even more than they normally do. The professors also ","cbCaicF5h93J5NYi","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicF5h93J5NYi","pdf",248183,14,"English","# Introduction\n## Project background and aims\n## Context of urban-rural disparities\n## Survey findings and reciprocal benefits","[{\"question\":\"What is the project The Caravan of Friendship and Games focused on?\",\"answer\":\"It organizes co-curricular activities that motivate young students to enjoy school, while also building understanding among university participants about working in smaller, lower socioeconomic communities.\"},{\"question\":\"Why did the project team add activities for the elderly?\",\"answer\":\"University and school participants suggested that they should work with older people, leading to visitation to elderly facilities and the inclusion of 240 elderly participants.\"},{\"question\":\"What benefits does the document report from volunteering?\",\"answer\":\"Analysis of survey data indicates volunteering supports both young students and elderly participants, and it also benefits the volunteers themselves, creating a reciprocal win-win relationship.\"}]","THE GRACEFUL TEACHER - THE CHOICE OF VOLUNTEERING | PDF",1792064866,35]