When I first pulled up to the small house located on Tyree street, there was a line of vagrant and less fortunate people. My first task was to escort each individual to the back of the house to the pantry room. In the pantry, I had to give each person a plastic bag and they were able to choose a few items from the room. When they were done, they moved to the clothes closet to pick out a few pairs of clothes and/or shoes. If they need assistance with anything else, someone was there to help them with their needs. There was a specific amount of food each person was given but not a set amount of clothing. After I was done with one client, I repeated those steps with the next. Throughout the semester, we've talked about minorities in the United States. I have taken time out to actually observe the people around the community and I've realized how much they are suffering from several social problems such as economic inequalities, families and children living in poverty, and the inability to apply or be approved for jobs to have the opportunity to help their families. Charities and nonprofit organizations play a major role in helping families who aren't able to help…
There are over 80 million orphans in this world, and most of them are very unhappy. It is proven that the caring from Mum is very important to a child. When the moment the child was born into the world, the mother’s duties commence. A mother has many duties, mainly by teaching her children about healthy eating, shaping a great role model and always be there for her children. Many times a mother needs to sacrifice her own happiness to let her children have a good life.…
Have you ever had to wonder where your next meal was coming from, if you were going to get anything to eat at all that day? Well there are many families and various people of all ages and races who experience this tragic, from day to day. I had the opportunity to help families and people without a family cope with this tragic. For my service learning project I helped out at the Raleigh Rescue Mission, Which is “Hope for the Poor and Homeless.” During my time at the Raleigh Rescue Mission, I helped prepare and serve the homeless. We served various families and those single, spaghetti and meatballs with bread, a salad and a cup of water or punch. Being able to speak with the people and react with them they really expressed how thankful…
Choice, Happiness, and Spaghetti Sauce was a well thought-out brain teaser type of video. Author and writer Malcom Gladwell introduces the audience to the food industry’s pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce, but ends up making a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness in a comical yet intelligent manor on TEDTalk. Gladwell uses his friend and Psychophysicist Howard Moskowitz’s crazy idea with Pepsi, and breakthrough formula for success with Vlasic Pickles and Prego spaghetti sauce to expose diversity, variability, and finding the true meaning of happiness. Based on the company’s Dr. Moskowitz worked for and inspired, this video has shown me some personal changes in my life that need to be changed.…
In my arrogance, I underestimated how small actions such as cooking can unknowingly provide a touching effect on others. Internally, I complained about about how I felt that my actions were insignificant while people in the same building are living through moments of emotional pain and torment. I realized that my attitude was immature and inconsiderate. Due to the emotional distress that these families are currently enduring, they need relief from the additional stress of getting food or paying for electricity. By cooking and volunteering, we may have been able to momentarily alleviate some of the burden these families face and allow them more time to focus on the health of their…
"We are Chinese-Korean in America. Most of them came here for supporting financial situation of family. Even now, there are lots of people who are living lonely because their family are still staying in China for children. I also were separated with my family over 15 years for earning money for them. I wasn really lonely so sometimes, I went to Kasino but it's really not good place. I became an addiction of it and my body became really weak because usually, I could not eat as well by alone. There are lots of the families like me in United states. Also, it is not good to their family. Many of them became broken family after the father came to USA because they did not see for a long time. In this situations, I really want to help many families. There are many people surrounding me because usually, they are going to Kasino and spending time and money recklessly. My friedn seung-Moon Kim started to meet with my church minister Sophia and he accepted…
Although I will never be able to resolve underprivileged children’s circumstances, I hope that the time I have spent with them has provided some happiness and fun-filled learning experiences, and most of all, inspire them to continue this practice when they are…
I have seen many students at the high school level walking around with the backpacks I helped make. Overall it may not have been much but knowing I helped out one student really made my day. However this project goes back to the problem of poverty. I not only chose this project just to help people out but for the reason that poverty is a very real subject that most people try to skim over. Poverty occurs in all walks of life and can happen at any time. But it so frequently happens to those who did nothing to deserve it, children. There are so many different types of poverty, however all these types cause many different effects to people, these different types include, generational, situational, absolute, relative, urban and rural poverty. These six different types of poverty take their toll on all sorts of people and can damage children in many different forms. Through the different kinds of poverty, children suffer, whether it be in their education or their homelife, children go through just as much of the poverty cycle as adults. Luckily there are people out there to help protect our…
I was granted the opportunity to work with the children and teachers of Coal Pit Learning Center for community engagement week. I worked with the children throughout the week to provide relief to the exhausted teachers and be a person who can look over the children. I was gifted the opportunity to work with a variety of children of ages from 3-5. My first day was tiring, but full of excitement. The children were a mix of shy and excited as we walked into their classroom for the very first time. I thought to myself, as my 3 classmates and I were thrown into the chaos of a group of 3 and 4 year olds, what I should be doing to help. But there was no need for the teachers to explain to us what to do, the children immediately gave us jobs of playing with them or making us watch them race their cars around the room. The week turned out to be a wonderful learning experience for me and the people I worked with.…
Throughout your middle school and high school career is when most people find out what their true identity and you go through events that really make a difference in your life. In the summer of 2017, my youth group decided to go on a missions trip to Peru. Going into the Peru trip, I didn't know what to expect but I was hoping to see change in myself. We went to an area in Lima, Peru called Jicamarca. I had seen pictures of JIcamarca and how run down it was, but I still felt like I had no idea what I was walking into. At first I was so nervous that people wouldn’t accept us into their little village but once we stopped at our first home we were immediately accepted. The people of Jicamarca are amazing. Each and every person I met was kind and…
Build rapport with the children and their families from the begging by introducing myself in a warm and friendly manner.…
I am let in the children world now; they completely trust me and don’t fear me. I stepped in the classroom today and from the door the children said –“Hello”, and smiled. Child S. even gave me a hug. We had 4 indoor activities set for them today, promoting physical, creative and social development. They enjoyed them very much.…
I set up an appointment with the Kids Club daycare at 9:45 am on November 4th to observe for an hour of toddler classroom who were between three and four years old. The principle gave me a warm greeting and took me to the class and introduced me to the teachers and the children. Everyone there made me feel welcomed. I chose a place where I can sit, observe and write my note as well as to be away from children's sight. In the classroom there were five boys, two girls, and two teachers Ms. Nadia and Ms. Emma. The classroom itself was large and spacious. The classroom is very appropriate for children this age and it has many interesting areas such as a blocks and art area, and children taped some of their previous work in the art area. The color of the class is bright and has interesting posters like calendars with the name of children’s birthdays. Also. There is a toys area that has toys suitable for both boys and girls like cars, animals, and doll. There is a reading area with a little amount of children’s books and stories in reachable…
As a part of community service program organized by my high school, I together with my other three friends had the opportunity to visit a women’s shelter home. Our task was to make the women in the shelter home aware primary health care. The program required us to teach the women about basic health and hygiene related topics like cleanliness, food and nutrition, and safe motherhood. We visited the women’s shelter home called “SAATHI” (meaning “friend”). Though I had been to orphanages before with my family and friends, it was my first visit to the women’s shelter home, so I did not have any idea about the likely situation there. We were quite eager to visit the home, so we set the date and time of the visit between us. The day finally arrived. We reached the place where the shelter home was located.…
Food for the Children, an international NGO based in the UK, provides foodgrains and powdered milk to families where children are at risk of malnourishment or starvation. It has provided food to families in the small South Pacific Island nation of Papua Tuyua for the past eight years, utilizing the school system as the means of identifying needy children and distributing the food. The Minister of Education in Papua Tuyua has approved the involvement of the school system in this project, though each year the process of approval has become more cumbersome and drawn out. Sarah Britton has arrived from London for a one week visit as the representative from Food for the Children sent to negotiate the arrangement, and she quickly comes to the opinion that the Education Minister is delaying the process in hopes for a bribe. The local school officials are eager for the food supplies and assure Sarah that they can distribute the food on their own with or without the Minister’s approval.…