We Day Application Essay Sample

To be perfectly honest, when I was nominated to attend We Day last November, I was excited for only one shallow reason: some of the cast of Degrassi would be there. Degrassi is a Canadian teen melodrama that I watched religiously throughout my middle school and high school years. I find it ironic that something that had been a colossal waste of my time would actually lead me to find my passion in life. We Day is an event created by the founders of Free the Children that celebrates youth philanthropy efforts. Students earn their tickets through global and local service. Last year was the first year my high school participated. My guidance counselor nominated me to attend because of my volunteer work in our school’s Key Club. I was not completely hooked by the opportunity until I saw the list of past and present speakers, which included Malala Yousafzai. Malala is one of my foremost role models in life for her unrelenting activism for female education and the youngest ever Nobel Prize laureate. Unfortunately, she would not be
To empower a mother with a steady income is to allow her children to get an education. This event not only educated me on this subject, but it also provided me with an outlet to contribute to this cause. My school’s students who attended We Day started a club called the We Care Team. Our global goal was to fundraise for the Goat Project we learned about at We Day. For only $50 we could provide a mother in need of income overseas with a goat. Goats are easy to feed without causing extra stress on the family’s finances and families can sell their milk as a sustainable source of income. After receiving the initial goat, mothers can subsequently invest in more to increase their business. As vice president of the group, I helped organize a dunk tank with teachers as “victims” at a school event. We raised just over $300; which is enough to for six goats to empower six