Essay On Cancer Free Kids
To begin, I’ve never had cancer, but cancer has impacted my life in a huge way. Cancer Free Kids is a non profit organization, that raises money through many different large projects for Pediatric Cancer Research. Cancer Free Kids has held 97 projects raising over 3 million dollars for Pediatric Cancer Research. I got involved with Cancer Free Kids during a project held every year for the past 4 years called Night 4 The Fight. We raised 200,000 dollars that night alone.
Growing up you learn about all the bad diseases in the world, how you should wash your hands to avoid contracting diseases and so on and so forth. The older I got the more I learned about the diseases you can get without even knowing or without being able to prevent. My Sophomore year of High School is when is all really started to click for me. I started to realize what a negative impact cancer has on so many people and families all around the world. As part of the Community Service Club, I did research trying to find projects that dealt with cancer research. In doing this it …show more content…
Doing all these different projects throughout the past 3 years really changed the outlook I have a Community Service and giving back for the rest of my life. I’m going to be honest, graduating from High School and then from College into the real world. I wouldn't have thought a whole lot of giving back and participating in Community Service as an adult. I know many people that don’t give back, although that isn’t a bad thing and this doesn’t make them awful people either. But knowing what I know now, I plan to not only give back money to held fund cancer research, but give back my time and efforts to different projects that are planned throughout my life. I hope to also plan projects of my own as a I grow as a
Growing up you learn about all the bad diseases in the world, how you should wash your hands to avoid contracting diseases and so on and so forth. The older I got the more I learned about the diseases you can get without even knowing or without being able to prevent. My Sophomore year of High School is when is all really started to click for me. I started to realize what a negative impact cancer has on so many people and families all around the world. As part of the Community Service Club, I did research trying to find projects that dealt with cancer research. In doing this it …show more content…
Doing all these different projects throughout the past 3 years really changed the outlook I have a Community Service and giving back for the rest of my life. I’m going to be honest, graduating from High School and then from College into the real world. I wouldn't have thought a whole lot of giving back and participating in Community Service as an adult. I know many people that don’t give back, although that isn’t a bad thing and this doesn’t make them awful people either. But knowing what I know now, I plan to not only give back money to held fund cancer research, but give back my time and efforts to different projects that are planned throughout my life. I hope to also plan projects of my own as a I grow as a