Example Of Civic Engagement

For a few days after I moved to DC, I wondered what actions I could do to illustrate the concept of “civic engagement.” I thought it was a broad term, maybe because I was not familiar with the American term. However, when I took the time to look over the exceptional amount of things I had learned and done in Washington DC, it was easy to write this paper. I choose to talk about homelessness at a local level, gun violence and ethics in journalism at a national level; and women entrepreneurs, digital communication and international security at a global level.
It is hard to miss them; they are on every street in DC. I was struck by the number of homeless in DC. That is the first thing I noticed when I moved here last August. That is why I signed …show more content…
I chose to volunteer at Empowered Women International. I care about womens’ place within society, as well as entrepreneurship. Empowered Women International holds an event "EWI 's Annual Artisan Gifts & Food Marketplace" on Sunday, November 15th at Silver Spring Civic Center. I met women from Romania, Morocco, the Ivory Coast and many other African countries who are self-made women. They create and made jewelry, crafts, food and beautiful accessories. I was asked to greet visitors and guests, respond to their needs (food and drinks), interact with them, and clean up. My father is an entrepreneur, so I have always admired them. It is not easy to build your own business because you have to be an employee and an employer at the same time. Entrepreneurship is everyone’s business: every time someone works on a group project, or organizes a big dinner for Thanksgiving, we are being entrepreneurs. When I spoke with a woman from Romania, she told me that her business members are herself and her 13 year-old son: he loves to draw on postal cards and letters, and she helps him, selects the best of them and sells them. I was with a woman from Morocco. She was selling homemade jam. She told me that what she likes the most is the proudness she feels to have accomplished every stage by herself: making jam, improving it, design the glass, the communication of her product and making profits. I felt these women were brave because they tend to be not taken as seriously as male entrepreneurs. I talked with a young woman from Ivory Coast selling natural cosmetics, and she told me that the business she works with to label her cosmetics was not very involved in her projects, and she had the feeling it was because she is a