Giving Back To The Community

I am Hmong and comes from a family of nine. My parents are refugees from Laos who came to the United States to escape communism after the Vietnam War. I was born in Oroville, California in the year 1994 and moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1997. My parents moved here in hope to find a good job to provide for the family as well as a better education for their children. As I got older, I realized that how important it is to help out one another. I am where I’m at because of the support I received from my family and my community. This is the reason why I tried my best to be a part of my community when I was in high school and while I am in college. In high school I took the opportunity to be involved with my school by joining school organizations.

I believe community involvement is essential in order to cultivate skills, increase awareness and educate people to have a fruitful venture in mind, body and spirit. The cultural diversity, partnerships with public, private and non-profit organizations have been instrumental to our success in this region. Despite the different ideologies and competing viewpoints, I hope to become an agent of

For most of my life the community in which I have lived has existed for my benefit. From the parks to the schools, from the roads to the public buildings, everything in my community has been there for me to use at my pleasure. I have never been forced to contribute to the community, never paying property taxes or attending local governmental meetings. I have never been part of a community organization, or any such group. But that time is coming to an end, and as a full adult member of my community, I feel that I should take a more active role. With the inclusion in a community comes responsibilities to others as well as the community as a whole. Without participation, a community is only a group of

First, community is our “home.” We have been living in a community ever since we were just little babies and it has always influenced us. Communities have played a big part in who we are today. We start off in school not knowing anyone or anything and as you get older you begin to think about the

In Lewistown, you know the waitresses at all the family owned restaurants, the pastors at all the churches, the bus drivers, and odds are your history teacher is also the basketball coach and the athletic director. My graduating class consists of children of the community farmers which grew up with my parents and my parents' parents. These children will graduate and take over the family farm and continue the generation chain. So many of the experiences I am privileged to have received or be a part of, are because of my little town. One particular example is the flood of 2013. The farmers who lived down in the river bottoms were rushing to find people to assist in sand bagging so they could save their house from the flood. The community all came together and hurried to aid these families in any way they could. People spent countless hours filling and carrying hundreds of sand bags. In a community like mine, it does not matter how well you know a person, what matters is that anyone is willing and eager to help in every way they can. The hearts of these individuals in my community are bigger than any other. When I was younger, at church I would bring every toy that could fit in

I feel that after all of the sacrifices that have been made by the community for my benefit, I have an obligation to give back and re-pay what has been given and more, I have an immense amount of appreciation and gratitude toward my community and all they have done for my peers and I. Community service also plays a big role in my involvement in the youth group at First Baptist Church of Bryson City. each year, a group of teenagers, including myself, participate in multiple community service projects -- whether they are as close to home as the Hospital Hill Road clean-up, or a far away as mission work in Port-au-Prince, haiti. I have been involved in many community service projects, because giving back to my community is something that simply gets done without

Actively participating in the betterment of my community is a trait that my family has instilled in me. It not only makes the lives of others better but makes me feel satisfied in providing them that service, that being said I try to help whenever I can and wish to continue doing so for the rest of my life.

I think that part of the idea of giving to the community is to inspire others that came from another place that moved to their community. I think that because, in a small town like Honokaa, the community is everything to show for in our town that has no special features. We have a small community but that can also a great thing I remember that a lot of people would come to offer volunteer work to help others, like the work with did with the forest next to the park we pulled to king grass, and when people came to help make a new teachers lounge for the school, I donate the clothes that I can fit the salvation army in our town. The idea of giving back to our community is an idea that I was raised with, it is an idea that made me think about different people than myself it made me not be selfish in what I do and buy like if I buy something can my family also play use it and if its clothes I would give it the salvation army that is located in our time. When I was around 6 I was more selfish and want to always get something when we come to a store, I would rarely share anything with my sisters or cousins but when I grew up I became more influenced by the idea to give back to people or the

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

We all have something close to our heart that could make a positive change in our community and possibly even our earth. I could make a positive change in my community by raising money through fundraisers to buy new, unused, cotton clothing (shoes, shirts, shorts), and by donating these needed clothing items to underprivileged children. Due to my many hours of work in the community soup kitchen it was brought to my attention that there is a need for more than food, there is a necessitate for clothing. I would hope to make sure no child goes unclothed.

Growing up in a small town in central Minnesota offered me many valuable experiences. My town has given me so much, and I always knew someday I wanted to be able to give back. I have

The strong sense of community that I have been privileged to know has been contributed to by many communities; however, two particular communities come to mind when I think about my own roles and personal growth.

Maybe someday I'll have kids of my own. I hope so. If I do, they'll probably ask what part I played in the movement that changed the world. And because I'm not the person I once was, I'll tell them the truth. My part was nothing. I did nothing. I was just the guy in the corner doing my usual thing..

I wouldn’t really say my community as a whole has an impact on me as a person but people in around me have had a huge impact on me for who I am today. The people who have the biggest impact on me is defiantly my family and friends, I have done so many things with them that made me the person who I am today.

“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members” (Coretta Scott King). A community consists of many individuals and how those individuals act, either alone or together, will determine whether the community will foster or die. Consequently, in order to be an effective individual in my own communities, I believe that being true to myself and really immersing myself is a powerful way to impact any community. For the most part, two of my communities are Providence College and Pasa Esek Hopkins. Reading about great leaders like MLK and Mother Teresa, who advocate for such strong love of neighbor and standing up for beliefs in the face of adversity, is at the focal point of my inspiration. I believe that believing in one’s self is how an individual can shine in their own community.