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KHOP Reflection

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At UNK I am a recipient of the KHOP scholarship and I am also a part of the sorority Alpha Omicron Pi. Through these two organizations I have stayed quite involved on campus and in the community. Through KHOP I was invited to join a learning community to be close to other students going through the same classes that I was. It was a great experience and it helped me increase my understanding in many of my classes. I was able to form study groups with some of the other students from the learning community. This helped me when I had questions but also helped me understand the material better by being able to teach it to the others in the group that didn’t understand it. Also through KHOP I have been given the chance to volunteer with many …show more content…

I have volunteered with Habitat for Humanity, getting to paint the house that they already built. Another volunteer activity I have done is with the Arc of Buffalo County by assisting in their Honey Sunday fundraiser by going door to door and selling honey. We also have certain fundraisers and volunteer events that we do within our sorority. One of these events is Sisters for Soldiers. Sisters for Soldiers is a night where we pack boxes of small necessities and candies and send them overseas to soldiers. Part of this event is volunteering to sit outside of grocery stores and asking for donations as well as recruiting members from the community to come and help with our event. Another one of our fundraisers is our Strike Out Arthritis Dodgeball Tournament that we put together every year. Each year we host a dodgeball tournament to raise funds for the Arthritis Foundation. We go around campus and the community to ask students and community members to participate in the event by either making a team or buying raffle tickets. All proceeds go to the Arthritis Foundation and without the support of all the Alpha Omicron Pi chapters in the United States the Arthritis Foundation would not have the funds available to be able to continue

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