Working In The Shelter System

While reading the steps of writing my essay, I thought this is going to be easy. I only have to write about my work experience and how working in the Shelter System has changed my life point of view. Well, it is not that easy. It is a hard task to write a paper and being sincere with yourself and expect to impact others who are going to read my essay. I am not sure if any series of introductory words would accurately capture my passion and desire to get into the Master’s Program at Fordham University, therefore I decided to go straight into what motivated me to apply for the program by telling you a little bit about myself and what inspired me to follow the path in the helping profession.
I want to start by telling you that I am an immigrant
It was a great experience to work with this little fellows. Even Though, my job was to be with the children during my shift and make sure they bathe, eat and play. My drive for help these children took me to conduct drive coats, food drive, and assisting them with the daily food menu. These small things are part of being a Social Worker, to seek for other ways to assist the agency and the children to come around from the problems of low fundings. Furthermore, the fact that I cooked for them, it helps me to build strong relationships with the children to the point that tears were the only thing left on me when they went back to their family. They taught me that dreams can be as big as you want them to be, also to never give up; the sky's the limit. It is undescriptible to define the courage of these children crossing the U.S border and the bravery to come to a country and pursue their happiness. It made me realize that dreams do not have
I realized that getting a higher level of education can positively impact the life of others my family and friends that saw me once barely speaking English. Nowadays I am pursuing my Master’s in Social Work. My goal is to escalate to a position where I can participate in our policies making and I want to support the policies that make our country a better one. I am not sure which population I want to work with, because our nation needs so much help and there is no reset button to start a new society. It is a utopia to live in a perfect society, nonetheless as a Social Worker I want to be able to contribute to built a better