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Volunteers who work in the travel industry recently escorted students from the 59th Street Elementary School 'round the world -- all without leaving the confines of their South Central schoolyard. Members of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Business Travelers Association (LABTA) staged a World's Fair at the school with UCLA students from BruinCorps, a community service group, serving as tour guides.
The Nov. 16 fair and similar projects benefiting the school resulted from a community partnership that UCLA helped knit together. When LABTA went searching for a school to "adopt," one of its board members, Rebecca Beatty, director of Business and Administrative Services in UCLA's Corporate Financial Services, found the 59th Street School, one of several served by the BruinCorps.
Since the match-up, LABTA has provided world maps for classrooms and student incentive awards. Coming up is a book drive to add travel- and geography-related books to the school library. "Our goal is to provide resources to foster children's knowledge of the world around them, be it geography, social studies, travel or the like," Beatty explained.
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