Going To Africa Research Paper

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It’s almost expected for someone to write an essay about wanting to go to Africa to help the suffering children and adults because it’s such a simple essay, but I truly mean it. Since I was young I have had the genuine passion for helping others and this odd interest in wanting to do so much, as to visit a third world country. Maybe it was my guilt over not doing anything for others when I was a child, or maybe it was the lack of continued practice of my religion where I would have been taught to give to others, but there was always such a want to help so much. When I was young I remember reading a kid’s magazine and inside was an article about a school who organized a trip to Africa for the kids to help there. I grew up doing charity, my elementary …show more content…
It would be an honor to help anyone I could, we all have so much and all we can do is give back to others. There is so much in the world we don’t think about; we don’t realize how much we have, even if we think we have nothing we have so much. We have life, we thrive and succeed, we make the impossible happen, but what we don’t make happen is giving back. It’s true we all, even I get wrapped up in material things, we forget that we have so much and focus ourselves on what we want without thinking about other people’s needs. There is so much I can do at home, but it’s so much more rewarding to both parties helping a community that has so much less. I would love to do something as great as building schools and even doing something larger like giving these communities access to healthy food and safety. Probably the best thing ill experience there is seeing these people’s lives change for the better. If I can help one community, if I can change their lives and provide them with so much more it will feel like such an

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