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Helping Personal Statement

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Since an early age my passion has always been to help others. In every aspect of my educational career and in my jobs, I have always determined that helping someone is the goal. Helping people is a goal that can be achieved in any work field regardless of what one does. For the last five years, I have volunteered for a non-profit organization named “Hogar de Ninos: Semillas de Fe” (translates to “A Home for Children: Seeds of Faith”). In this organization, a group of young adults have traveled to the Dominican Republic once a year for a period of two weeks each trip. Our goal is to help the impoverished children. These children have been exposed to countless traumatic events including being physically, emotionally, and sexually abused. The organizations mission consists of helping develop these children …show more content…

These children need someone to tend for them; it ultimately all deals with love. This same concept is what I take when I engage myself with any person at my job. Our job and careers entail certain guidelines and curriculums with an object of any kind. This could include a retail or sales goal that must be met. Within the works of achieving such sales goals, we must find our humanity in our day to day jobs. The objective is not to save the world because that is realistically impossible but in our own jobs, we can make a very small difference I someone’s life. That is a concept that I have learned from helping the children during the missionary trips and that I have applied to all my jobs whether as a waitress in a local family restaurant to retail banking. Helping people is the heart of my mission in this world. If I can continue to help people even in the simplest task, then my mission on earth would be fulfilled. I plan on continuing my studies in criminal justice because it allows me to encounter opportunities in public service to help individuals throughout my

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