Service Learning Experience Paper

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Starting my service learning experience was difficult at first but after planning and figuring out what I wanted to achieve from it, it became easier to accomplish. In the beginning of planning my SLE I knew that I wanted to help donate to a big organization. I repeatedly told myself “the smallest action can make a huge change”. It was a challenge to figure out where I was going to get the money from in order to donate. That was until I meet Ivonne Farfan, the owner of “RENTMEUSA”. Not only does she own that company but she owns two cats that have been victims of animal testing. She told me their background story and was able to adopt them thanks to the organization called PETA, who helped saved their lives. As a result of that situation I

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