As I glance around my surroundings atop a comfortable bed, I observe a desk equipped with a computer, a drawing desk ladened with paper, and a lamp upon a bedside table. I get up off of my bed and leave my bedroom to find four other family members, my parents and two younger siblings. I can but help to feel that I am extraordinarily gifted and privileged to be given all that I have. Throughout the world there are injustices, unmet needs, and sufferings that happen everyday of which I have never had to experience. It is for this reason that myself and countless other volunteers strive to alleviate the pains and struggles of others as best I can. It's an unbelievably daunting task that we have in front of us that requires a communal effort
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Nicaragua is the poorest country in all of the Americas, so many of the world's most poverty stricken people can be found in abundance. It was an incredibly eye opening experience to say the least. Many of the people survived off only the trash that was delivered from the trash trucks of which they salvaged all they could from the heaps. Project HOPE helps provide materials and tools for building housing communities for these people and hands out as much food as they can disperse among the masses. They give them their humanity, often finding them jobs, preaching to them the gospel, and ultimately giving them hope that things would not remain this way for forever. As a Computer Science Major with a double minor in art, the opportunities to assist in the "good fight" against poverty, uneducated, and tyrannical governments are unending and greatly required. Through computers the ultimate resource of communications, crowd-source funding, and connection between each other is virtually limitless. To be able to help in software or web development for non-profit organizations like Project HOPE and Convoy of Hope is eventually my goal. I desire to share my profession to other people so that I might make the maximum amount of positive impact with the time that I
Nicaragua is the poorest country in all of the Americas, so many of the world's most poverty stricken people can be found in abundance. It was an incredibly eye opening experience to say the least. Many of the people survived off only the trash that was delivered from the trash trucks of which they salvaged all they could from the heaps. Project HOPE helps provide materials and tools for building housing communities for these people and hands out as much food as they can disperse among the masses. They give them their humanity, often finding them jobs, preaching to them the gospel, and ultimately giving them hope that things would not remain this way for forever. As a Computer Science Major with a double minor in art, the opportunities to assist in the "good fight" against poverty, uneducated, and tyrannical governments are unending and greatly required. Through computers the ultimate resource of communications, crowd-source funding, and connection between each other is virtually limitless. To be able to help in software or web development for non-profit organizations like Project HOPE and Convoy of Hope is eventually my goal. I desire to share my profession to other people so that I might make the maximum amount of positive impact with the time that I