Community Service
ASPV Student Council Project Valle Verde.
The Valle Verde Project is a community project sponsored by the ASPV Student Council. Valle Verde is a small community located outside the city limits of Puerto Vallarta. This rural community currently contains a small school housed in a rather rudimentary structure. As a result, students are not able to attend school during the rainy season. Our goal is to raise enough money to enable the community to construct a building which would give the students year round access to education. Please help us make a difference.
If you would like to donate, please contact Student Council advisors, Heather Fenton at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Mr. Josiah Laposky at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Community Service at ASPV
Community Service is an integral part of the academic and values program of our school.
Every year, each class in the Primary School chooses a community need to address. These projects are serviced based and allow our students the opportunity to authentically help others as well as to learn from their service experience. The projects are student-selected and tailored to align to the grade level curriculum. Projects focus on community needs and range from working within communities to raising funds for worthy causes.
This year, our students are involved with several community based projects, including:
Building & Maintaining a Recycled Playground in San Pancho
Food and Clothing Drives for Mamá Vallarta in Pitillal
Beach Clean-up and Preservation Efforts along the coasts of Jalisco and Nayarit.
For more information about ASPV Primary ‘s Community Service, please visit ASPV CARES.
The Upper School encourages all students to become engaged in serving the wider community. At the beginning of each year they can sign up for volunteer work in areas of personal interest, either individually, in small groups or with a teacher. Students can also choose to be project leaders with a teacher mentor or organize class projects.
Examples of student-led community service projects:
- Bed-time stories at "Casa Hogar" orphanage
- Fund-raising for sports equipment for "El Colorado" elementary school
- Visiting children at the Preschool in Col. Sta. Maria
- Selling bracelets for "Becas Vallarta" scholarship program
- Providing tutoring to younger students
- National Honor Society reading advocacy and public school library program, Leer y Crecer
Leer y Crecer (Read and Grow)
In the spring of 2005, five ASPV students and two teachers began reading with a group of children at a local elementary school each Thursday afternoon. Today, the students at Escuela Francisco Villa have their own school library, where all children have the opportunity to check out books each week. The ASPV National Honor Society has developed the program Leer y Crecer (Read & Grow) in order to support public schools in Mexico in their desire to offer their students more access to books and the magic of reading.
Since then, Leer y Crecer has worked with 45 schools, started reading circles in various community settings, helped to implement school libraries, organized teacher workshops in reading advocacy, and set up partnerships between a number of US/Canadian schools and those in Mexico.
... recognized as the best international school community service project of 2009 at the Tri-Association Educators' Conference in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Join us in Sharing the Joy of Reading in Mexico!
For more information, contact us at
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Partners/sponsors of Leer y Crecer,which include:
Rotary Club Invermere, B.C.
Rotary Club Bahía de Banderas
Librerías Gonvill
Biblioteca "Los Mangos" P.V.
University of Minnesota, Duluth
Finch Elementary School, Toronto
Lorna Reiter partners/sponsors of Leer y Crecer,which include:
Rotary Club Invermere, B.C.
Rotary Club Bahía de Banderas
Librerías Gonvill
Biblioteca "Los Mangos" P.V.
University of Minnesota, Duluth
Finch Elementary School, Toronto
Lorna Reiter