Making a Positive Change in My Community

Ever since I can remember, I have had the intense desire to help people. In high school, I joined Kiwanis Key Club and National Honors Society; both organizations allowed me to gain hours of volunteer experience helping families in need within my own community. Both organizations have annual events to benefit our community. At Christmas, Key Club adopts a few families and we buy clothing and toys for the kids. Our efforts to make the holidays a more enjoyable time for the families removed the parents’ burden of having to worry about being able to pay bills after getting presents for their children. Also, National Honors Society holds a blood drive every year in coalition with the American Red Cross. Last year our blood drive was in honor of a little girl in our community with leukemia.

In addition, I have many ideas on how to make the Beta Club grow and become more successful. One of which, is a school-wide rummage sale, with items donated by families. This would be good to help fund the Stop Hunger Now event that everyone enjoyed last year. The rummage

One particular activity that I feel has made a difference in the community is my participation in Mini-THON, a student-led philanthropic organization that raises money for research in pediatric cancer and benefits Four Diamonds and Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital. I have served as the Junior and Senior Co-Chair, or President, for the past two years, respectively. Each year, my responsibilities have expanded from simply attending meetings and contributing ideas for fundraisers, to actively coordinating meetings and organizing fundraisers with local businesses. For example, our club held our first annual “Teenie-THON” for elementary school students. We spent countless hours creating advertisements and permission slips for the participants.

In the course of my time at Union County College, I was able to participate in measures that aided my community and those in need. I took part in the donation and creation of care bags which were donated to the Salvation Army. This initiative was made by AESNJ as part of their statewide drive to help those who lack the resources needed to obtain day to day necessities such as hygienic supplies, socks, tissues and other essentials. Additionally, I made a financial contribution which went towards aiding Syrian children. Helping individuals in need encouraged me to participate in Strides against Breast Cancer a walkathon which generated money for women whose lives were impacted by cancer. The financial donations assisted women who were unable

This past month we put on a global awareness project. My society advisor and I discovered this foundation, The Pulsera Project. The organization sought to help individuals working in textiles gain freedom from their poor conditions and give them respectable jobs making bracelets, referred to as pulseras, that are sold all over the world. So, we joined immediately in the cause selling bracelets at our school, telling our peers about the Nicaraguan workers lives, and helping to provide financial relief. Our society decided to not use this as a fundraiser, but instead send all our profits back to the Pulsera Project. Not only do I help others through clubs, my high school sports teams I play for also run sports camps over the summer to help smaller child learn the game and improve their skills. The players, like me, help mold and sculpt the younger generations of

A problem that I would like to solve is world hunger. This is a major problem, and cannot be solved over night. I think the best way to go about this would be to set up some kind of donation system in America, to eliminate hunger in America, and then take it all over the world. The donation system would ideally be funded by the government and the taxpayers.The way I want this to work is that people would pay a little more in taxes to fund it. Donations could be made outside taxes, and stores could donate leftover or unsold products, like fresh-made bakeries that didn't sell everything they made in a day. If all stores got on board with this, then it could expand into "stores" in every community in America. These "stores" would work like a homeless

This quarter our small group chose the Coats 4 Kids organization. We were searching for an organization that involves kids, but it was very challenging to find something that worked for us. It was a challenge to find an organization that involved babysitting or tutoring or playing with kids. Some organization that we wanted to work with were, Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery, Boys and Girls Club, Ronald McDonald House and various elementary schools. But every single organization required background checks and an extensive registration process. Eventually we choose KXLY's Coats 4 Kids. This organization was very important for me because coats are a necessity for every child. One day I was driving past an elementary school and I saw kids walking out of the school, many of them either had no coats or their coats were not zipped upped. This made me sad that so many kids were walking out into the cold with no coats. If a child doesn't have a good coat for the winter, it turns into a domino effect. They could get sick and then that would mean doctor visits. Every child deserves a coat during the winter.

Excellent points about research data. It is a great tool to help with gaining a wealth of understanding how things can change and make a difference as to the way standards of care that rendered. It can also make a difference as to the way services are being provided and how they directly or indirectly affects the level of care being provided in the community. An accomplish way for data collection methods to make a difference in the healthcare

I have, helping children and people in foreign countries isn’t the only thing you can do to help the world. I have noticed many needs in my community, and I have also thought of ways to help these needs. You may be wondering how does helping my community change the world? Well, helping around community could inspire people to do the same and start helping out more. I want to start changing the world by providing shelter, food, and clothing around my community.

Have you ever participated in any collective efforts to make progressive change? If so, what were they? If not, why do you think you have not participated in an effort to create change?

What want to wish for to change my community is violence,sexual assault, kidnappings, and for people to live without fear. I know it might not happen but i would wish for it.

Unlike the suburbs yet a suburban mentality was instilled; the idea that how we appear to others and education is the key to social mobility, well, the legal key. Although I was born a child of the ghetto I learned that the ghetto is where I’m teenage mother in Kingston, Jamaica. I currently reside in Seaview Gardens a community that is said to be a ghetto, and don’t get me wrong, it is but it’s my suburb and it’s where I learnt everything I know. “What people think of a ghetto is dependent on how people in the ghetto think” – Shadiomar McPharlene; where I live although there’s distractions all around,

Throughout my life, I have been privileged to know a strong sense of community. My understanding of community has been carved out and shaped by each community that I have been a part of and the subsequent life experiences that I have had by being a part of these communities. To me, community means a sense of belonging with people who have some capacity of like-mindedness. When you belong to a community, you feel like a piece of a larger puzzle that comes together to create a whole. Each community you belong to both influences you, and is influenced by you. Moreover, your belonging to a community generates a sense of unity and shares a common goal, value, or outlook.

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.