I felt an automatic connection with Odette’s story as I will soon be serving in the Peace Corps within the African Continent, as Odette did in the early 90s. Odette served in Rwanda, until 1993, when the Peace Corps suspended its program within the country due to developing internal tension. Afterward, she took a few short-term jobs in Kenya, Gabon, and Burundi until in 1993 violent conflicts erupted in Burundi due to the death of the new Hutu president after years of Tutsi government. It was at this point that the Peace Corps decided to recommence their work in Rwanda. Prior to the operations implementation, the rhetoric on the radio had already turned antagonistic. The Peace Corps employees were reassured that they would be protected by the UNAMIR. Even so, shortly before the genocide in Rwanda, eighteen American Rangers working with the UN in Somalia were killed. It was likely due to this even that the UNAMIR in Rwanda did not get involved…
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Goodwill, Unicef, Make A Wish, and St. Jude's Research Hospital are a few examples of charities. What exactly is a charity? A charity is an organization set up to provide help and raise money for those in need.…
Throughout high school, I have been a member of my school's branch of KEY Club. KEY Club has been an excellent club to be a part of, as it has allowed me to take part in various activities in my local community. As a member, I have been a part of promoting all our fundraisers, such as food and shoe drives, and have been a viable member known for my high standards of excellence and dedication. From my membership in this organization, I was inspired to initiate my own service project in order to play a bigger role in the success of KEY Club. In June of 2016, several students and I started collaborating to initiate our own returnable can and bottle drive. Since then, we have went to several community events and neighborhoods, as well as the local…
For the past 10 years, I have been a member of the Busy Workers 4-H club along with holding the offices of Treasurer, Secretary, and currently President. Through 4-H I have been involved in a multitude of community activities. Every year my club and I hold an annual Bingo Night with the developmental disabilities home in our community; playing games and giving out prizes. Additionally every Christmas we sing Christmas Carols to the nursing home and then host a Christmas party for the residents. Furthermore, on my own, I have assisted with the Public Library’s Summer Food Program. During this program, I served lunch to the children, and then read books to them. This past summer I aided in tearing down an old community baseball field fence and…
During eighth grade, I was contacted by the University of Michigan Dearborn SIFE program. I was challenged to come up with a product used by students that needed to be improved. SIFE used my idea and it brought me into the U of M family. For two years, they used this project and I was heavily involved in it. I attended summer programs, meetings and planning committees. After that two years passed, it was declared that the SIFE program was dissipating and along with it the community service opportunity. I did not want to lose this so with the help of the UMich faculty, a year later, I was matched with the Alpha Kappa Psi Business Fraternity. From there, we tried implementing the same program that had worked with SIFE. Although it worked, I did not see the summer program participants gaining much from it because most of it had to do with things such…
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Through my membership in my high school Kiwanis Club, I have participated in many public service activities. These activities have included Feed My Starving Children which is a program where we prepare packages of food to be sent to third world countries who struggle with starvation. I have also participated in activities with the goal of raising money for the St. Jude foundation, Breast Cancer awareness, Autism awareness, as well as a local tragedy. I plan to continue these activities by participation with a Kiwanis club or similar endeavor in my college career. My career choice of nursing will allow me to continue to fulfill my desire to help people in need. I also intend to seek out public service programs to volunteer in while pursuing…
To enact change in my community I have recently taken part in the “I Rock Pink” organization. In which we host big events such as golf tournaments, galas, picnics and all sorts of events in order to raise awareness and financial support. Our main goal is to educate and alert our community about cancer and what it feels to have cancer. Along with teaching and raising awareness we also try to fundraise. For instance in 2013 we donated $20,000 to the Wellspring Chinguacousy Foundation in regards of cancer research. Likewise my family and I along with some neighbors go around our neighborhood and pick up any garbage or waste on the streets, to keep our community clean and good-looking. In the future I want to grow our neighborhood group and want…
Michael Jackson is best known for his music, but he possibly touched just as many people through his love and compassion for those less fortunate. Here are just some of the things he did which never really made the headlines...…
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Multicultural education is an idea , an educational reform movement and a process whose major goal is to change the structure of educational institutions so that male & female students and students with diverse racial , ethnic and different sexual desires will have an equal chance to achieve academically. Compared to other countries , Japan is more accepting to its sexual minorities as there’s no laws against homosexual activity and they don’t discriminate based on sexual orientation . First aid case was reported in 1985 between gay men . In 2003 , there were 9500 case of persons with HIV . The efforts to educate Japanese citizens on HIV/AIDs has been complicated by political as well as educational obstacles rooted in homophobic prejudice as much as bureaucratic slowness. In 1991 , the number of aids contracted through heterosexual behavior had increased 350% which resulted in the school association for student health to recommend inclusion of condom information.…