Essay on How my Experience in Ghana Influenced my Life

I raised money for scholarships to camp; helping hundreds of kids come to camp that would be unable to afford it otherwise. Development of a diverse staff was important to me. So I recruited, interviewed and hired central city staff to be part of camp. This involved going to their neighborhood for interviews because they had no means of getting to camp.

at the orphanage, I was able to help build a sidewalk and a garage for

I was able to help the community by teaching the kids about God as well as having fun at the same time. I also helped at some of the Youth Elective Service weekends. I was glad to be able to help others that are unable to do the work that needs to be done at their homes. I also liked being able to visit them and make their day a bit brighter because some of those people aren’t able to get out much.

They said they would help me, and at first I doubted it, but if they did help, it was worth the risk.

We went to the store and bought toiletries, bread, peanut butter and jelly, water, juice boxes, and many other things to distribute to the homeless around town. These items were essentials that were desperately needed by these people, and the money we raised in order to get these items went a long way. We were very nervous about just walking up to people and passing these things out, the idea of a stranger coming up to you and handing you items is a scary thought in itself, but being on the other end is even scarier because you don’t know how others will react.

knowledge through my experience and helping less fortunate made me a better person. It changes my perception on how and why I see the world and the people around me. I become a well-rounded person, it opened my hearts to understand and taught me a better way to connect with people.

While I was helping my friends and family through these difficult times, I did not realize it at the time, but I was

I have been a knight to those within my community that do not have what I have been blessed with. With the aid of my church I have been able to help the people within my county who do not have the clothes necessary for work, church, school, or the seasons weather. Through the Kings Clothesline at my church around 500 people were clothed just this year. My church has also given me the opportunity to feed the hungry in my community, which is made possible through a summer lunch program and something we call Saturday Sacks. Saturday Sacks is a program where members of my church gather together every Thursday during the school year to prepare sacks of food and snacks. These sacks are then distributed to the children enrolled in local county elementary

Me and my brother sometimes helped my grandma with mowing her lawn for her and feeding her bull.Sometimes we helped clean her cars.Sometimes me and my brother helped clean the horse stalls and exercise the horses.She sometimes gave us riding lessons.

Question one is what is the African diaspora? (Who should be considered in the African diaspora? How is this like the black Atlantic and how is it different?). Students should use the Colin Palmer piece to answer this question.

I volunteered at the Hubbard House, which is a home away from home for people who have family in the hospital or are being treated by the hospital and don’t want to live there, as the hospital is a 5 minute bus ride away. Our job was to serve the residents who were currently housed there, a hot homemade spaghetti and meatballs meal with garlic bread and assorted desserts. We served them as if it were a restaurant and brought smiles to their faces.

Volunteered to serve soup on campus during "Free Soup Day" and also hosted children's activities at the Royal Oaks School Carnival.

In simple terms, the Diaspora as a concept, describes groups of people who currently live or reside outside the original homelands. We will approach the Diaspora from the lenses of migration; that the migration of people through out of the African continent has different points of origin, different patterns and results in different identity formations. Yet, all of these patterns of dispersion and germination/ assimilation represent formations of the Diaspora. My paper will focus on the complexities of the question of whether or not Africans in the Diaspora should return to Africa. This will be focused through the lenses of the different phases in the Diaspora.

My life has been a crazy roller coaster with many events that have affected my life all in different ways. There have been times where my life has been at its highest peak in the world then it falls down, right into a deep valley. From the time my lovable younger sister came into my life to when my grandpa had a near death experience, I have learned many valuable lessons through the rough times as well as the more happy times. When I was a young girl, my mom had always told me the same thing over and over again. I never really thought about how a few words would have a deep effect on me in a short amount of time.

they could assist me out of this dark web I was now tangled in. They